Sample Sentences for
venerable
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    The Maycomb jail was the most venerable and hideous of the county's buildings.  (source)
    venerable = respected
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    The twice-tolling clock, the Count explained, had been commissioned by his father from the venerable firm of Breguet.  (source)
    venerable = long respected
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    [Of Elrond] He was as noble and as fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as venerable as a king of dwarves, and as kind as summer.  (source)
    venerable = respected
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    ...the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale turned to the dignified and venerable rulers;  (source)
    venerable = respected
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    the exterior, through the lapse of years, might have been adding venerableness to its original beauty, and thus giving that impression of permanence which I consider essential to the happiness of any one moment.  (source)
    venerableness = worthiness of respect and admiration (coming from age)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    The news shows Mayor De Roos venerably bowing his head at a press conference.†  (source)
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    For ever Unvenerable be thy hands, if thou Tak'st up the princess by that forced baseness Which he has put upon't!†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unvenerable means not and reverses the meaning of venerable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    And just consider: what would become of the sanctity of prayer, what of the venerability of the Brahmans' caste, what of the holiness of the Samanas, if it was as you say, if there was no learning?†  (source)
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    My son, by all means desist from kicking the venerable and enlightened Vizier:  (source)
    venerable = respected (or honorable)
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    Her situation at Gardencourt therefore, appreciated as we have seen her to be by Isabel and full of appreciation herself of that free play of intelligence which, to her sense, rendered Isabel's character a sister-spirit, and of the easy venerableness of Mr. Touchett, whose noble tone, as she said, met with her full approval—her situation at Gardencourt would have been perfectly comfortable had she not conceived an irresistible mistrust of the little lady for whom she had at first supposed herself obliged to "allow" as mistress of the house.†  (source)
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    Farther off was a farm-house, in the old style, as venerably black as the church, with a roof sloping downward from the three-story peak, to within a man's height of the ground.†  (source)
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    And he wanted them badly enough to stand up to the venerable head of the family.  (source)
    venerable = elderly and respected
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    Of the frivolous Judge—of the corrupt Congressman, Governor, Mayor—of such as these standing helpless and exposed, Of the mumbling and screaming priest, (soon, soon deserted,) Of the lessening year by year of venerableness, and of the dicta of officers, statutes, pulpits, schools, Of the rising forever taller and stronger and broader of the intuitions of men and women, and of Self-esteem and Personality; Of the true New World—of the Democracies resplendent en-masse, Of the conformity of politics, armies, navies, to them, Of the shining sun by them—of the inherent light, greater than the rest, Of the envelopment of all by them, and the effusion of all from them.†  (source)
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