Definitions
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- verb Present participle of
venerate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective feeling or manifesting veneration
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Examples
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At first complicit in venerating saintly bits, the church had to curb the ghoulish trend.
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Essentialism, in venerating outdated ideas about gender roles (even as they claim to deny them) is a definitively conservative idea.
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For all its anti-religious rhetoric, the USSR boasted "sacred" texts, condemned "heretics", revered founders, conducted rituals (such as venerating
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] Meg Ireland 2010
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For all its anti-religious rhetoric, the USSR boasted "sacred" texts, condemned "heretics", revered founders, conducted rituals (such as venerating
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] Meg Ireland 2010
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For all its anti-religious rhetoric, the USSR boasted "sacred" texts, condemned "heretics", revered founders, conducted rituals (such as venerating
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2010
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For all its anti-religious rhetoric, the USSR boasted "sacred" texts, condemned "heretics", revered founders, conducted rituals (such as venerating
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2010
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For all its anti-religious rhetoric, the USSR boasted "sacred" texts, condemned "heretics", revered founders, conducted rituals (such as venerating
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] Meg Ireland 2010
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For all its anti-religious rhetoric, the USSR boasted "sacred" texts, condemned "heretics", revered founders, conducted rituals (such as venerating
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2010
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The seven pictures on display by him include two shots of spectacular fires, three dramatic scenes of the fountains and lights of Buenos Aires at night, and "Vigil on the Night Before the Passing of Eva Peron" 1952, with a huge crowd holding candles and venerating her beaming image.
Seeing Sights Far and Near William Meyers 2011
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Pall Mall, [11] and having made a sentimental visit to the birth-place of Newton, at Woolsthorp, I was to be represented venerating the spot and the orchard where that great man first conceived by the falling of an apple the theory of gravitation, in its application to the motions of the heavenly bodies.
Letter 178 2009
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