All 3 Uses of
venerable
in
Middlemarch
- For it must be remembered that this was a dark period; and in spite of venerable colleges which used great efforts to secure purity of knowledge by making it scarce, and to exclude error by a rigid exclusiveness in relation to fees and appointments, it happened that very ignorant young gentlemen were promoted in town, and many more got a legal right to practise over large areas in the country.†
Chpt 2
- The Rev. Camden Farebrother, whom Lydgate went to see the next evening, lived in an old parsonage, built of stone, venerable enough to match the church which it looked out upon.†
Chpt 2 *
- Fred wrote the lines demanded in a hand as gentlemanly as that of any viscount or bishop of the day: the vowels were all alike and the consonants only distinguishable as turning up or down, the strokes had a blotted solidity and the letters disdained to keep the lineāin short, it was a manuscript of that venerable kind easy to interpret when you know beforehand what the writer means.†
Chpt 6
Definition:
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(venerable) respected (worthy of respect) -- typically because of age or position