All 27 Uses of

venerate

in

Les Miserables

It was like an epidemic of veneration, which in the course of six or seven years gradually took possession of the whole district.†
Chpt 1.5

She had long shared the universal veneration for Father Madeleine; yet, by dint of repeating to herself that it was he who had discharged her, that he was the cause of her unhappiness, she came to hate him also, and most of all.†
Chpt 1.5

He told himself that he must do his duty; that perhaps he should not be more unhappy after doing his duty than after having avoided it; that if he allowed things to take their own course, if he remained at M. sur M., his consideration, his good name, his good works, the deference and veneration paid to him, his charity, his wealth, his popularity, his virtue, would be seasoned with a crime.†
Chpt 1.7

Everywhere the name of M. Madeleine was pronounced with veneration.
Chpt 1.7 *

veneration = feelings of respect and reverence

It will be remembered that the fundamental point in Javert, his element, the very air he breathed, was veneration for all authority.†
Chpt 1.8

Cosette took the doll and laid it gently on the floor with a sort of veneration, mingled with despair; then, without taking her eyes from it, she clasped her hands, and, what is terrible to relate of a child of that age, she wrung them; then—not one of the emotions of the day, neither the trip to the forest, nor the weight of the bucket of water, nor the loss of the money, nor the sight of the whip, nor even the sad words which she had heard Madame Thenardier utter had been able to…†
Chpt 2.3

Moreover, at this minute which we are now traversing,—a minute which will not, fortunately, leave its impress on the nineteenth century,— at this hour, when so many men have low brows and souls but little elevated, among so many mortals whose morality consists in enjoyment, and who are busied with the brief and misshapen things of matter, whoever exiles himself seems worthy of veneration to us.†
Chpt 2.7

She belonged to the society of the Virgin, wore a white veil on certain festivals, mumbled special orisons, revered "the holy blood," venerated "the sacred heart," remained for hours in contemplation before a rococo-jesuit altar in a chapel which was inaccessible to the rank and file of the faithful, and there allowed her soul to soar among little clouds of marble, and through great rays of gilded wood.†
Chpt 3.2

This caused the cure to regard him with veneration and tenderness, and the colonel, on his side, became fond of the cure.†
Chpt 3.3

He never separated the memory of this man from the memory of his father, and he associated them in his veneration.†
Chpt 3.5

Venerate the man, whoever he may be, who has this sign—the starry eye.†
Chpt 3.7

There, assuredly, one might be misled; but error is worthy of veneration there, so thoroughly does it imply heroism.†
Chpt 3.7

Be false to the most imperious souvenirs, to all those solemn vows to himself, to the most sacred duty, to the most venerated text!†
Chpt 3.8

As for Toussaint, she venerated Jean Valjean, and thought everything he did right.†
Chpt 4.3

We are of the number who fall speechless in the presence of young girls and flowers, since we think them worthy of veneration.†
Chpt 5.1

Even when they miscarry, they are worthy of veneration; and it is, perhaps, in failure, that they possess the most majesty.†
Chpt 5.1

What was that cess-pool which had venerated that innocence to such a point as not to leave upon it a single spot?†
Chpt 5.7

Provided only that we can find him, I will pass the rest of my life in venerating him.†
Chpt 5.9

"But you!" cried Marius with a wrath in which there was veneration, "why did you not tell it to me?†
Chpt 5.9

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