reverencing
Example Sentences
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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
One of the reasons why one rather disbelieves in reverencing stupidity is that it is not always as honest as it looks.
From The Book of This and That by Lynd, Robert
He had made a most ruinous muddle of his whole life through reverencing that fetich word.
From The Sign of the Spider by Mitford, Bertram
He made every one stand and sit by turns, so that while one set were resting the other were reverencing the divine and angelic presences.
From Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England by Marson, Charles L. (Charles Latimer)
Leaving with averted eyes the gorgeous glare obtained by polluted hands, she is wont to draw nigh to holiness, not reverencing wealth when falsely stamped with praise, and assigning each deed its righteous doom.—Æschylus.
From Pearls of Thought by Ballou, Maturin Murray
