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
I, reverencing the people, did not bate My reverence of their deed and oracle, Nor vainly prate Of better and of worse Against the great conclusion of their will.
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
What men are here—wild, insolent, unjust, or are they hospitable, reverencing the Gods?
From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques
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
The Dutch in Europe were a highly cultivated people, devoted to learning and reverencing the printed book.
From Dutch and English on the Hudson A Chronicle of Colonial New York by Goodwin, Maud Wilder
