Read full poem →A female form at last Vertumnus wears,
With all the marks of reverend age appears,
His temples thinly spread with silver hairs:
Dictionary Entry
A member of the Christian clergy; a minister.
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “reverend”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Show'd Rome her Cato's figure drawn in state; 30
As her dead father's reverend image pass'd,
The pomp was darkened, and the day o'ercast;
Read full poem →Show'd Rome her Cato's figure drawn in state;
As her dead father's reverend image pass'd,
The pomp was darken'd and the day o'ercast;
Read full poem →If that can be thy home where Spencer lyes
And reverend Chaucer, but their dust does rise
Against thee, and expels thee from their side,
Read full poem →CAMDEN! most reverend head, to whom I owe
All that I am in arts, all that I know—
Read full poem →Set dancing by the death of Elenor Murray
To sink so fine a boat, and leave the Reverend
To swim to shore! he couldn't walk the waves!
Read full poem →When I lie crumbled to the earth at length,
Let you not say, “Upon this reverend site
The righteous groaned and beat their breasts in prayer.”
Read full poem →The first Catholic church in New England was built at
Oldtown, Maine, in 1688 by the Reverend Louis P. Thury.
Among the noted missionaries of these early days was the
Read full poem →script and gave generously of special knowledge, and to
Reverend Edwin V. O’Hara, superintendent of schools for
the Archdiocese of Oregon City, who at various stages of
Read full poem →Prec. A grave and reverend Cardinal, and his Grace
The Archbishop of Toledo.