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

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 Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

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 Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

My connections at home, although not Evangelical Christians, respected religion, and when I left, they counselled me to be always particular in observing the Lord's Day and reverencing it.

From The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young by Various

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 Devereux, W. Cope