VENERATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does venerate mean? 

• VENERATE (verb)
  The verb VENERATE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: VENERATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VENERATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they venerate    ... he / she / it venerates   
Past simple: venerated   
Past participle: venerated   
-ing form: venerating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

fear; revere; reverence; venerate

Context example:

We venerate genius

Hypernyms (to "venerate" is one way to...):

esteem; prise; prize; respect; value (regard highly; think much of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "venerate"):

enshrine; saint (hold sacred)

worship (show devotion to (a deity))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

Sam cannot venerate Sue

Derivation:

veneration (a feeling of profound respect for someone or something)

venerator (someone who regards with deep respect or reverence)

 Context examples 

I deeply venerated my cousin's talent and principle.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The domestic, unpretending merits of a person never known do not often create that kind of fervent, venerating tenderness which would prompt a visit like yours.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

There is great need, she answered, in the same way, that I should open my whole heart before the soul of generosity and truth, whom, year by year, and day by day, I have loved and venerated more and more, as Heaven knows!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)