- present participle of reverence.
reverencing
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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
He beseeches the Greeks to restore to him his dear child, the maiden Chryseis, their captive, and to accept in return the proffered ransom, reverencing the god.
From Greek Women by Mitchell Carroll
On such ground we tread lightly, reverencing the great and mighty dead.
From Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta by W. Cope Devereux
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
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