revere
verb (used with object)
to regard with respect tinged with awe; venerate.
had been revering
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past perfect progressiveof revere.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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He must have begun to feel that he had been revering as a saint a mere man, who had not even risen superior to the lure of lucre.
From The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore
