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VENERATING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does venerating mean?
• VENERATING (adjective)
The adjective VENERATING has 1 sense:
1. feeling or manifesting veneration
Familiarity information: VENERATING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Feeling or manifesting veneration
Synonyms:
respectful; reverential; venerating
Similar:
reverent (feeling or showing profound respect or veneration)
Context examples
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)
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