reverenced

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But Pi is precociously enlightened, his innocence not a problem to be rectified but a quality to be reverenced.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2025

Most white Americans were of British descent, they drew their political principles from English history, and they reverenced the king as protector of his people and their liberties.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

In this sun-kissed journalistic keep south of San Francisco, the Western way of life is reverenced as a backyard religion because Sunset Magazine is its priest.

From Time Magazine Archive

Citation: "You have repeatedly demonstrated the Socratic dictum: No man is to be reverenced more than the truth."

From Time Magazine Archive

I liked to read what they liked to read: what they enjoyed, delighted me; what they approved, I reverenced.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë