- present participle of reverence.
reverencing
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
Thus reverencing law, we enter our protest against rules and customs which are unworthy of the name, since they violate justice, the essence of law.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
He was obedient because he believed his father to be wise and good, reverencing the old man with simple, unquestioning veneration.
From The Doctor's Wife by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
For true religion comes not by violence, but chiefly, I think, from being brought up with good men, reverencing their ways and words.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
You must have manufactured this riddle out of sheer wantonness, for in the indictment you charge me with reverencing gods!
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
