Used with adjective complement

• become: Whilst fun, the show became slightly more reverent in its ecclesiastical setting.

Modifies a noun

• awe: Four women day workers, spoken of with reverent awe, earn - 13s. a week.

• fear: Do you live in reverent fear / awe of who Jesus is?

• attitude: He was blessed with great energy and a less than reverent attitude to formalities which made him approachable and easy to work with.

• silence: We watched the child draw its last breath in reverent silence.

• tone: I am tempted to say " Here endeth the lesson " but in very reverent tones.

• manner: The Highland Council has a duty to ensure that the deceased are buried or cremated in an efficient, sensitive and reverent manner.

Modifying Another Word

• very: I am tempted to say " Here endeth the lesson " but in very reverent tones.

• not: We're not reverent either, which always helps.

• deeply: His addresses were not lacking in humor, but were always deeply reverent in tone.

• so: I don't suppose I shall ever go to such another service - it was so reverent and the surroundings so rough.

Preposition: in

• way: Then they can train the younger women Titus is to teach the older women to also be reverent in the way they live.