reverence
noun
a feeling or attitude of deep respect tinged with awe; veneration.
are reverencing
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present progressiveof reverence.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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They are reverencing what they thoroughly understand; they have seen their monkhood from the inside; their reverence is the outcome of a very real knowledge.
From The Soul of a People by H. (Harold) Fielding
We are right to doff our hats when it passes; we are right to love it and to reverence it, for in so doing we are reverencing union, patriotism, liberty and justice.
From A Librarian's Open Shelf by Arthur E. Bostwick
