venerablyadv.
/ˈvɛn(ə)rəbli/, U.S. /ˈvɛnər(ə)bli/, /ˈvɛnrəbli/ In a venerable manner; so as to be venerable; †with veneration.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adverb]
oldly1562
venerablyc1610
inveterately1645
patriarchally1835
anciently1870
archaically1883
archaistically1891
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > reverence > [adverb]
worthlyOE
reverentlya1382
worthilyc1400
worshippinglyc1475
reverendlyc1480
venerablyc1610
reverentially1644
worshipfully1863
veneratinglyc1925
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > reverence > quality of inspiring reverence > [adverb]
venerablyc1610
reverendly1636
c1610–15 tr. Gregory of Nazianzus Life St. Nonna in C. Horstmann Lives Women Saints (1886) 180 Whose happie passage the Greeke and Latine Churche do venerablie recorde..[on] the fift of August.
1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires vi. 90 So Ven'rably Ancient is the Sin.
1699 S. Garth Dispensary i. 7 Each Faculty in blandishments they lull, Aspiring to be venerably dull.
1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea I. xxx. 194 The years that had rendered his beard so venerably hoary.
1791 G. Huddesford Salmagundi 135 Might I but..See thee in scarlet robe encase thy fur, And at St. Mary's venerably purr!
1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV xxxi. 18 His mansion and his sepulchre; both plain And venerably simple.
1838 Fraser's Mag. 17 58 It [the beard] had become venerably red.
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adv.c1610