Venerate Definition

vĕnə-rāt
venerated, venerates, venerating
verb
venerated, venerates, venerating
To look upon with feelings of deep respect; regard as venerable; revere.
Webster's New World
To venerate is to treat or regard someone with great respect.
When you treat your your hero with great respect and view him as someone who can do no wrong, this is an example of a situation where you venerate your hero.
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To revere or hold in awe.

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Origin of Venerate

  • Latin venerārī venerāt- to venerate from venus vener- love, desire wen-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin venerātus, perfect passive participle of veneror (worship, reverence).

    From Wiktionary

Venerate Sentence Examples

  • As a liberal conservative, I venerate Mill as a great man.

  • Natives and Anglo-Indians alike venerate his name, the former as their first beneficent administrator, the latter as the most able and the most enlightened of their own class.

  • Pilgrims from all over Sardinia gather to venerate the saint, whose effigy is paraded around on an ox-drawn carriage.

  • They ceased to appeal to the Virgin and saints, and to venerate images and relics, procure indulgences and go on pilgrimages, they deprecated the monastic life, and no longer nourished faith by the daily repetition of miracles, but in the witch persecutions their demonology cost the lives of thousands of innocent women.

  • The Turks, consequently, hold his memory in abhorrence; whereas the Persians, who are generally Shi'as, venerate him as second only to the prophet, call him the "Lion of God" (Sher-i-Khuda), and celebrate the anniversary of his martyrdom.

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