venerable
ven·er·able (ven′ər ə bəl)
adjective
- worthy of respect or reverence by reason of age and dignity, character, or position
- impressive on account of age or historic or religious associations a venerable monument
- Anglican Ch. a title of reverence for an archdeacon
- R.C.Ch. a title of veneration for a dead person who may later be beatified
Etymology: ME < MFr vénérable < L venerabilis, to be reverenced < venerari: see venerate
venerable
modif.
Old
aged, hoary, ancient; see old 3.Having qualities becoming to age
revered, reverenced, honored, honorable, noble, august, grand, esteemed, respected, dignified, imposing, grave, serious, sage, wise, philosophical, experienced. Antonyms
inexperienced*, callow, raw.
Modifies a noun
- martyr: Kontakion of the venerable martyrs, in Tone II: Spec.
- predecessor: Nor can I fail to mention my own venerable Predecessors who have guided the Church in the twentieth century.
- edifice: In 1848 this venerable edifice was sold to the North British Railroad Co. for about £ 18,000.
- relic: On redecorating the church in the 1970s, the Church Council decided they no longer wanted these venerable relics.
- father: Ed. ] On the 11th of March in the same year, the Rector's venerable father had breathed his last.
- prejudice: Through such proliferation, as Marx observed, ' ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions are swept away ' .
Modifying Another Word
- so: He abhorred a vain ostentation of wit in handling sacred truths, so venerable and grave, and of eternal consequence.
- very: Here is a very venerable oak, which is supposed to have existed in the founder's time, of uncommon size.
- pretty: The TR line, by contrast, proved pretty venerable.
- extremely: Once uncovered, they are extremely venerable to looting, destruction by the elements and worms.
- once: HILARIOUS JSM Hockeys This once venerable agency seems to have been taken over by a lettings specialist.
- highly: And so I hold the stated position as it is, because it belongs to men who are highly venerable.
Beautiful city! so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged by the fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene!whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
The world, that grey-bearded and wrinkled profligate, decrepit, without being venerable.
The old man puffed into sight like a venerable battlewagon pressing up over the horizon. First a smudge of smoke, then the long cigar, then the familiar, stoop-shouldered hulk that a generation has come to know as the silhouette of greatness.
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