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

There are certain dogmas relating to what is just and good in which we have been brought up from childhood--obeying and reverencing them.

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)

And so these twain, upon the skirts of Time Sit side by side, full-summed in all their powers, Self-reverent each, and reverencing each; Distinct in individualities, But like each other, as are those who love.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

"After acquiring wealth in abundance, the twelve inner seats "Are to be thoroughly reverenced; what use of reverencing aught else below?

From The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy by Acharya, Madhava

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 Carroll, Mitchell