worship
noun
reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
had been worshipping
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past perfect progressiveof worship.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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A second congregation, Dor Hadash, also had been worshipping at Rodef Shalom and plans to return there once the pandemic eases enough to allow in-person services, according to its president, Donna Coufal.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 24, 2020
The clown replied that "he had been worshipping nature's God," and proved it by repeating the substance of the Athanasian creed.
From Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." by Charles Bradlaugh
I do not mean that in Mary Osborne I had been worshipping the finite.
From Wilfrid Cumbermede by George MacDonald
The lot for it was purchased in April, 1829, but the founders for a year or two previous to that had been worshipping in the Presbyterian Church building, Saint John's or the Lancastrian schoolroom.
From A Portrait of Old George Town by Grace Dunlop Peter
I saw that I, a child of the infinite, had been worshipping the finite—and therein dragging down the infinite towards the fate of the finite.
From Wilfrid Cumbermede by George MacDonald
