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Very Reverend   /vˈɛri rˈɛvərənd/   Listen
adjective
Very  adj.  (compar. verier; superl. veriest)  True; real; actual; veritable. "Whether thou be my very son Esau or not." "He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends." "The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness." "I looked on the consideration of public service or public ornament to be real and very justice." Note: Very is sometimes used to make the word with which it is connected emphatic, and may then be paraphrased by same, self-same, itself, and the like. "The very hand, the very words." "The very rats instinctively have quit it." "Yea, there where very desolation dwells." Very is used occasionally in the comparative degree, and more frequently in the superlative. "Was not my lord the verier wag of the two?" "The veriest hermit in the nation." "He had spoken the very truth, and transformed it into the veriest falsehood."
Very Reverend. See the Note under Reverend.





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"Very reverend" Quotes from Famous Books



... to Captain Bunker, with a gracious wave of his hand towards the extraordinary figures, "to present you to the illustrious Don Miguel Briones, Comandante of the Presidio of Todos Santos, at present hidden in the fog, and the very reverend and pious Padre Esteban, of the Mission of Todos Santos, likewise invisible. When I state to you," he continued, with a slight lifting of his voice, so as to include the curious passengers in his explanation, ...
— The Crusade of the Excelsior • Bret Harte
... others,—a man who has been dipped in the river of God (a surer baptism than Styx or dragon's blood) till his character is of perfect proof, and who appears plainly as the very soul and life of the young Colony. Very reverend and godly he truly was, and a respect not merely ceremonious, but personal, a respect that savors of love, shows itself in the letters addressed to him. Charity and tolerance flow so naturally from the pen of Williams that it is plain they were in ...
— Among My Books - First Series • James Russell Lowell


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