0 present participle of venerate
1 to honour or very much respect a person or thing:
Robert Burns is Scotland's most venerated poet.
Certain lineages may have been prohibited from venerating ancestors in this sacred city or on lordly pyramids in the hinterland.
Thus, it became a matter of ideology that to employ the 'blues' within a thoroughly different social context, by venerating its originators thereby enabled the appropriation of their very authenticity.
It looks like a rather absurd bit of clinging on to relics and to venerating them.
That new cathedral would not have the same hallowing and venerating influences as are possessed by the present structure.
Beware of the danger of venerating idols!
Many young people wear necklaces venerating particular martyrs, posters decorate the walls of towns and rock and music videos extol the virtues of bombers.
Although temples to either the civil or martial deities alone are widespread, it is comparatively rare to have temples venerating both.
One story holds that a servant witnessed her venerating her icons and reported her to the emperor.
