Veneration
[venə'reɪʃ(ə)n]
Definition
(n.) The act of venerating, or the state of being venerated; the highest degree of respect and reverence; respect mingled with awe; a feeling or sentimental excited by the dignity, wisdom, or superiority of a person, by sacredness of character, by consecration to sacred services, or by hallowed associations.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Reverence, high respect.
Typist: Virginia
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Reverence, adoration, worship
ANT:Contempt, disesteem, loathing, vilification
Typist: Ted
Examples
- She fell upon her knees, and clinging to this stroller's child looked up at her almost with veneration. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- It was a tree of the fig genus, and from the first it was treated with peculiar veneration. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was not the most promising party to travel with and hope to gain a higher veneration for religion through the example of its devotees. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I felt veneration for St. John--veneration so strong that its impetus thrust me at once to the point I had so long shunned. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It is not every removal in time, which has the effect of producing veneration and esteem. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- This veneration Mr. Dick extended to the Doctor, whom he thought the most subtle and accomplished philosopher of any age. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The Pilgrim mounted with more deliberation, reaching, as he departed, his hand to Gurth, who kissed it with the utmost possible veneration. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Few tombs on earth command the veneration of so many races and men of divers creeds as this of Joseph. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- When the day arrived, my very carpet-bag was an object of veneration to the stipendiary clerks, to whom the house at Norwood was a sacred mystery. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I suppose I have a considerable organ of veneration, for I retain yet the sense of admiring awe with which my eyes traced her steps. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He is my husband's best and dearest friend, he is our children's darling, he is the object of our deepest love and veneration. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I have too great a veneration for crowned heads, to dwell any longer on so nice a subject. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- For a long time the church went from prince to prince for an ally without realizing that the lost ally it needed to recover was popular veneration. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Wanda