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Meanings of venerate in English

Portuguese
venerar
Catalan
reverir

Regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of.

venerar
Synonyms
Examples for "fear"
Examples for "fear"
1
However, some politicians and public health experts fear that may be premature.
Reuters
2
However, I fear this might simply be a case of wishful thinking.
The Guardian
3
Fruit farmers Facebook Twitter Pinterest Farmers fear uncertainty over EU workers' rights.
The Guardian
4
We can't continue to let the Syrian population fear for their future.
Reuters
5
Countries fear seeing their young people left behind, their workforce made irrelevant.
The Guardian
1
False religion; reverence of beings not proper objects of reverence; false worship.
Scientific Essays and Lectures
2
They are held in high reverence by the common people in Ireland.
Castle Rackrent
3
The world has lost reverence; I regret it, I bitterly regret it.
Saint's Progress
4
However, he is probably regarded with the highest reverence in Puerto Rico.
The new yorker
5
The recluse looked at the little volume with reverence in his eyes.
Men, Women, and Boats
1
Sir David said people must care, respect and revere the natural world.
Radio NZ
2
And all men revere the number one hundred, which is ten tens.
The Memoirs of Cleopatra
3
We revere in them the protomartyrs of co-operative industry and economic equality.
Equality
4
Indian children were taught to respect their elders and revere the religious.
The Irish Times
5
Some eager Trojan boy won it; let him revere and keep it.
Helen of troy
Usage of venerate in English
1
They may venerate the thing; and, anyway, they're smart in some respects.
The Intriguers
2
To crush fanaticism and to venerate the infinite, such is the law.
Les Misérables
3
In England they venerate so many laws, that they never repeal any.
The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
4
Ye venerate me; but what if your veneration should some day collapse?
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
5
The Chinese reverence their dead and venerate the spots in which they lie.
New Forces in Old China: An Inevitable Awakening
6
We venerate education but fail to elevate the people tasked with providing it.
The Guardian
7
We must love and venerate that which was lovable and venerable in it.
Woman and Womanhood: A Search for Principles
8
Human beings tend to venerate what finished well, not what was done well.
The Guardian
9
There are few men in history whom I so deeply venerate.
Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2
10
Nevertheless they venerate the sun, and salute the sunrise with respect.
De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) / The Eight Decades of Peter Marty...
11
Let us venerate the sceptre, which is the first of staves.
The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
12
But I may speak of what I myself admire and venerate.
The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster / With an Essa...
13
They had taught the Norman Conqueror to venerate their ancient rights.
The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 / An Historical Novel
14
He is at war with everything we venerate and build on.
Beauchamp's Career — Complete
15
She was no iconoclast, no hater of what other men love and venerate.
George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philoso...
16
No one has more reason to venerate his name than myself.
Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals / In Two Volumes, V...
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Portuguese
venerar
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