reverence
noun
a feeling or attitude of deep respect tinged with awe; veneration.
reverencing
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present participleof reverence.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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In a land reverencing charismatic leadership and far-reaching intellect, he looks like a messenger boy and disparages his own brain.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had made a most ruinous muddle of his whole life through reverencing that fetich word.
From The Sign of the Spider by Bertram Mitford
Leaving with averted eyes the gorgeous glare obtained by polluted hands, she is wont to draw nigh to holiness, not reverencing wealth when falsely stamped with praise, and assigning each deed its righteous doom.—Æschylus.
From Pearls of Thought by Maturin Murray Ballou
The Dutch in Europe were a highly cultivated people, devoted to learning and reverencing the printed book.
From Dutch and English on the Hudson A Chronicle of Colonial New York by Maud Wilder Goodwin
The cohesion of the body lies in each one's realizing his own gift, and also reverencing that of others.
From St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Vol. II A Practical Exposition by Charles Gore
