as in venerating
to offer honor or respect to (someone) as a divine power
devotees coming to reverence their god
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Recent Examples of reverencing
Written with the intimacy of a conversation among loved ones, Someday, Now invites readers to sit with loss while still reverencing the beauty of life, parenting, and letting our children flourish.
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Lynnette Nicholas, Essence, 9 Oct. 2025
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And, online, there has been a never-ending stream of posts venerating Kirk as a martyr who died defending white Christian values.—
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Explain to the woman that not everyone in the group is comfortable displaying their religiosity in public, and some may prefer to do their worshiping privately.—
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Filmed aboard an operational replica of an actual 18th-century ship, the Götheborg of Sweden, the sequence sees Lee and her congregation worshipping through movement daily on the ship’s deck, rain or shine.—
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Chu sits at the center of Hollywood, and grew up in Silicon Valley revering engineers.—
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“Reverencing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reverencing. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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