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Reverend   /rˈɛvərənd/  /rˈɛvrənd/   Listen
Reverend

noun
1.
A member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church.  Synonyms: clergyman, man of the cloth.
2.
A title of respect for a clergyman.
adjective
1.
Worthy of adoration or reverence.  Synonym: sublime.



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"Reverend" Quotes from Famous Books



... of mere being, full of health; The careless childhood and the ardent youth; The strenuous manhood winning various wealth, The reverend age ...
— The Will to Believe - and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy • William James
... mirthful strain, like mingled bird and brook song, floated out on the still air, along the path where the red and golden maple leaves were falling very softly, one by one. The Reverend Stephen Leonard heard it, as he came along the way, and the Reverend Stephen Leonard smiled. Now, when Stephen Leonard smiled, children ran to him, and grown people felt as if they looked from Pisgah over to some fair land of promise ...
— Chronicles of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... twelve o'clock the Reverend John Dunn essayed to go to his nightly slumber in the southwest chamber. He had been sitting up until ...
— The Wind in the Rose-bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural • Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
... lively, and not to build any history: painting men, they cannot leave men nameless. We see we cannot play at chess, but that we must give names to our chessmen; and yet methinks he were a very partial champion of truth that would say we lied for giving a piece of wood the reverend title of a bishop. The poet nameth Cyrus or Aneas no other way than to show what men of their fames, fortunes, ...
— English literary criticism • Various
... the degeneracy of the age and sigh for the fine times of foros e fogos, the rights and fires of an auto-da-fe. The shepherds have now learned to move with the times and to secure the respect of their sheep. Imagine being directed to Paradise by a reverend man who gravely asks you where ...
— To the Gold Coast for Gold - A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.--Vol. I • Richard F. Burton


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