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

And Douglas, the man engaged to marry Joan, reverenced Lynneth, white daughter of the moon.

From Time Magazine Archive

He went to Paris, where he lived with Theo, painted furiously and tried to become like the Impressionists, whom he reverenced.

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