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 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 Wilson, John Mackay

There are certain dogmas relating to what is just and good in which we have been brought up from childhood--obeying and reverencing them.

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)

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)

What men are here—wild, insolent, unjust, or are they hospitable, reverencing the Gods?

From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques