All 9 Uses of
venerate
in
David Copperfield
- Therefore I gave him one of my three bright shillings, which he received with much humility and veneration, and spun up with his thumb, directly afterwards, to try the goodness of.†
Chpt 4-6
- he had a profound veneration for my abilities
Chpt 10-12 *veneration = feelings of respect and reverence
- He always sat in a particular corner, on a particular stool, which was called 'Dick', after him; here he would sit, with his grey head bent forward, attentively listening to whatever might be going on, with a profound veneration for the learning he had never been able to acquire.†
Chpt 16-18
- This veneration Mr. Dick extended to the Doctor, whom he thought the most subtle and accomplished philosopher of any age.†
Chpt 16-18
- 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.†
Chpt 25-27
- She was so devoted, she had such a quick perception of what it would be well to say, and what it would be well to leave unsaid; she was so forgetful of herself, and so regardful of the sorrow about her, that I held her in a sort of veneration.†
Chpt 31-33
- But, as I have recorded in the narrative of my school days, his veneration for the Doctor was unbounded; and there is a subtlety of perception in real attachment, even when it is borne towards man by one of the lower animals, which leaves the highest intellect behind.†
Chpt 40-42
- 'There is great need,' she answered, in the same way, 'that I should open my whole heart before the soul of generosity and truth, whom, year by year, and day by day, I have loved and venerated more and more, as Heaven knows!'†
Chpt 43-45
- 'I hold it — I have always held it — in veneration.'†
Chpt 58-60
Definition:
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(venerate) regard with feelings of respect and reverence