reverencing

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

His subjects were loving and peaceable, evidently regarding the English as gods and reverencing them as such.

From A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole by M. B. (Margaret Bertha) Synge

The Dutch in Europe were a highly cultivated people, devoted to learning and reverencing the printed book.

From Dutch and English on the Hudson A Chronicle of Colonial New York by Maud Wilder Goodwin

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