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Meanings of superstitious veneration in English

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Usage of superstitious veneration in English
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The Malagasy, like the ancient Egyptians, regard the crocodile with superstitious veneration.
The Fugitives: The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar
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The female patriarch of the household was regarded with superstitious veneration.
Woman on the American Frontier / A Valuable and Authentic Histor...
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From time immemorial the mistletoe has been the object of superstitious veneration in Europe.
The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion
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The superstitious veneration for the possessor of the magic throne produces a profound obedience.
Ismailia
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He is very proud and sensitive, and has an almost superstitious veneration for the Holiday tradition.
Wild Wings: A Romance of Youth
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Probably nearly every village had one, which in time became to be regarded with superstitious veneration.
The Maya Chronicles / Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American L...
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I shall shew them in the proportion in which they appear to me, without envious malignity or superstitious veneration.
Preface to Shakespeare
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I shall show them in the proportion in which they appear to me, without envious malignity or superstitious veneration.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 05 / ...
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But it was tinged with the superstitious veneration with which the northern warriors had been accustomed to regard women.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1
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Whatever poor Brummell's supernatural tendencies may have generally been, he had unquestionably a superstitious veneration for his lost sixpence.
The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims. Volume 1 (of 2)
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But they were still carefully maintained, by honest legislators from superstitious veneration, by dishonest legislators for their own selfish ends.
Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1
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Yet he usually falls at last into the popular idolatry, and passes with inconceivable rapidity from indignant scepticism into superstitious veneration.
Ernest Maltravers — Volume 02
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Hence in Peru, tobacco is known as the sacred herb, and from its invigorating effect superstitious veneration is paid to the weed.
The Folk-lore of Plants
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The Russians have a superstitious veneration for them, believing, I fancy, that they are inhabited by the souls of their departed relatives.
Fred Markham in Russia; Or, The Boy Travellers in the Land of th...
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The sacrifice was made to the morning star, "O-pir-i-kut," which, with the Ski-di, especially, was an object of superstitious veneration.
The Great Salt Lake Trail
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Had it not, after all, been a superstitious veneration towards an ideal of faithfulness which had been Jenny's rather than his own?
The Romance of Zion Chapel [3d ed.]
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