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
A people who, reverencing beauty, reverenced likewise grace or acted beauty, so utterly and honestly, that nothing was too humble for a free man to do, if it were not done awkwardly and ill.
From Lectures Delivered in America in 1874 by Charles Kingsley
It is picturesque,—that conception of a great, sincere man and of a world reverencing him and begging to be led by him.
From The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures by Bliss Perry
For some time we remained silent, reverencing the old man’s grief.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative by John Mackay Wilson
"We won't try it to-night," said Clementina, and once more turned him from the place, reverencing the shadow he had brought with him from the spirit of his mother.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. by Various
