Venerate
/ˈvenəreɪt/verb
To respect or admire someone or something greatly.
Many people venerate him for his work in promoting peace.
Often appears as...
- venerate as a saint
- venerate the memory
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Formal
verb
To honor or revere as a deity or something sacred.
In some cultures, ancestors are venerated and prayed to.
Often appears as...
- venerate the deity
- venerate the ancestors
Usage tips
Formal
verb
To respect or admire someone or something greatly.
Many people venerate him for his work in promoting peace.
Often appears as...
- venerate as a saint
- venerate the memory
Usage tips
Formal
verb
To honor or revere as a deity or something sacred.
In some cultures, ancestors are venerated and prayed to.
Often appears as...
- venerate the deity
- venerate the ancestors
Usage tips
Formal
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Pro Tip 1/3Deep Admiration
Use 'venerate' to describe profound respect for someone's achievements or character.
She venerates her grandmother, who survived many hardships.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Figures
'Venerate' is often used to describe respect towards influential historical figures.
Many venerate Gandhi for his nonviolent fight for freedom.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Legacy
It's used to show admiration for traditions or legacies that have shaped a culture.
The town venerates its founding myths through annual festivals.
Compare with
adoreesteemhallowedhonouridolizerespectrevereworship
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How to live to be 100+ -...
garden they know how to set up their life in the right way so they have the right outlook each of these cultures take down to downshift the Sardinians pray the seventh-day adventists pray the Okinawans have this ancestor veneration but when you're in a hurry or stressed out that triggers something called the
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Dan Buettner: How to...
and they all tend to have a garden. They know how to set up their life in the right way so they have the right outlook. Each of these cultures take time to downshift. The Sardinians pray. The Seventh-Day Adventists pray. The Okinawans have this ancestor veneration.
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Antonio Donato Nobre:...
I was educated by television. I think that I missed this, an ancestral record, a valuation of what I don't know, what I haven't seen. He is not a doubting Thomas. He believes, with veneration and reverence, in what his ancestors and the spirits taught him.
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Jeffrey Brown: How we...
And you can go to any emergency room at any hospital, and you would see lying on gurneys young black and Latino men shot and dying. And I was doing funerals, but not of the venerated matriarchs and patriarchs who'd lived a long life
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Without farmers, you'd...
On its face value, that sounds pretty simple. However, that shift turned our farmers from a venerated class and a valued class in our society into a cost to be minimized. That shift made it so that my great-grandfather,
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The fascinating history...
others in trees or on mountaintops. Still others were sunk in lakes, put out to sea, ritually cannibalized, or cremated. All of these practices, though some may seem strange today, were ways of venerating the dead.
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Palenque and the Ancient...
and all of the things he did venerating the gods and keeping the cosmos going but they're characterizing this beginning um point of his reign where you know he is building the palace and he's
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Marian Devotion PIPE...
spreading the word at the magic Oriya visionaries and to a life of full-time veneration of Mary regards Charlie choosing me to do this work I had no doubts I had no lack of confidence the
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Neil MacGregor: 2600...
Cyrus remained the model. This is a 16th century image to show you how widespread his veneration actually was. And Xenophon's book on Cyrus on how you ran a diverse society
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Christian Catacomb...
more elaborate tomb a cubiculum a room frescoed from floor to ceiling we'll see this is clearly an important section of the cemetery for the wealthy and the venerated
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How to live to be 100+ -...
garden they know how to set up their life in the right way so they have the right outlook each of these cultures take down to downshift the Sardinians pray the seventh-day adventists pray the Okinawans have this ancestor veneration but when you're in a hurry or stressed out that triggers something called the
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Dan Buettner: How to...
and they all tend to have a garden. They know how to set up their life in the right way so they have the right outlook. Each of these cultures take time to downshift. The Sardinians pray. The Seventh-Day Adventists pray. The Okinawans have this ancestor veneration.
Video examples
Antonio Donato Nobre:...
I was educated by television. I think that I missed this, an ancestral record, a valuation of what I don't know, what I haven't seen. He is not a doubting Thomas. He believes, with veneration and reverence, in what his ancestors and the spirits taught him.
Video examples
Jeffrey Brown: How we...
And you can go to any emergency room at any hospital, and you would see lying on gurneys young black and Latino men shot and dying. And I was doing funerals, but not of the venerated matriarchs and patriarchs who'd lived a long life
Video examples
Without farmers, you'd...
On its face value, that sounds pretty simple. However, that shift turned our farmers from a venerated class and a valued class in our society into a cost to be minimized. That shift made it so that my great-grandfather,
Video examples
The fascinating history...
others in trees or on mountaintops. Still others were sunk in lakes, put out to sea, ritually cannibalized, or cremated. All of these practices, though some may seem strange today, were ways of venerating the dead.
Video examples
Palenque and the Ancient...
and all of the things he did venerating the gods and keeping the cosmos going but they're characterizing this beginning um point of his reign where you know he is building the palace and he's
Video examples
Marian Devotion PIPE...
spreading the word at the magic Oriya visionaries and to a life of full-time veneration of Mary regards Charlie choosing me to do this work I had no doubts I had no lack of confidence the
Video examples
Neil MacGregor: 2600...
Cyrus remained the model. This is a 16th century image to show you how widespread his veneration actually was. And Xenophon's book on Cyrus on how you ran a diverse society
Video examples
Christian Catacomb...
more elaborate tomb a cubiculum a room frescoed from floor to ceiling we'll see this is clearly an important section of the cemetery for the wealthy and the venerated
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James K. Polk
American President
No person can be more deeply sensible than myself of the danger of entangling alliances with any foreign nation. That we should avoid such alliances has become a maxim of our policy consecrated by the most venerated names which adorn our history and sanctioned by the unanimous voice of the American people.
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Zach Galligan
American Actor
What drives that desire to destroy Paris Hilton? What drives that desire to venerate Angelina Jolie? I do understand it, but it still baffles me. It baffles me when people treat me specially and differently, because I just want to look at them and go, 'What are you talking about? I'm just a person.
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John Paul Jones
American Soldier
America has been the country of my fond election from the age of thirteen, when I first saw it. I had the honour to hoist with my own hands the flag of freedom, the first time it was displayed, on the Delaware; and I have attended it with veneration ever since on the ocean.
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Glenn Greenwald
American Journalist
Somehow, when the authoritarians on the Right search for icons of manly warrior power to venerate, they find only those who like to melodramatically play-act as such, but who ran away when it came time to actually perform.
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Len G. Murray
Scottish Lawyer
And thus it was that I started to wonder why Robert Burns is so important to us. We have other poets, and other writers, and other heroes, yet we do not afford them the veneration that we afford to Robert Burns.
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Malcolm Gladwell
Canadian Author
We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating. They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen.
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Pranab Mukherjee
Indian Statesman
In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru.
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Ronald Blythe
English Writer
To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.
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Alan Watts
English Philosopher
The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
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George Jean Nathan
American Editor
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
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James K. Polk
American President
No person can be more deeply sensible than myself of the danger of entangling alliances with any foreign nation. That we should avoid such alliances has become a maxim of our policy consecrated by the most venerated names which adorn our history and sanctioned by the unanimous voice of the American people.
Quote examples
Zach Galligan
American Actor
What drives that desire to destroy Paris Hilton? What drives that desire to venerate Angelina Jolie? I do understand it, but it still baffles me. It baffles me when people treat me specially and differently, because I just want to look at them and go, 'What are you talking about? I'm just a person.
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John Paul Jones
American Soldier
America has been the country of my fond election from the age of thirteen, when I first saw it. I had the honour to hoist with my own hands the flag of freedom, the first time it was displayed, on the Delaware; and I have attended it with veneration ever since on the ocean.
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Glenn Greenwald
American Journalist
Somehow, when the authoritarians on the Right search for icons of manly warrior power to venerate, they find only those who like to melodramatically play-act as such, but who ran away when it came time to actually perform.
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Len G. Murray
Scottish Lawyer
And thus it was that I started to wonder why Robert Burns is so important to us. We have other poets, and other writers, and other heroes, yet we do not afford them the veneration that we afford to Robert Burns.
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Malcolm Gladwell
Canadian Author
We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating. They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen.
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Pranab Mukherjee
Indian Statesman
In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru.
Quote examples
Ronald Blythe
English Writer
To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.
Quote examples
Alan Watts
English Philosopher
The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
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George Jean Nathan
American Editor
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
Example 1 of 10
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