Sample Sentences for
venerate
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    Rob wanted to make a public statement to defend himself, but he realized that going up against such a venerated figure in the media was a no-win situation.  (source)
    venerated = respected and revered
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    ...he venerated Big Brother,  (source)
    venerated = regarded with feelings of respect and reverence
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    ...the veneration due to its sacred name and origin,  (source)
    veneration = feelings of respect and reverence
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    It is inconceivable, the agony with which this public veneration tortured him.  (source)
    veneration = feelings of respect and reverence
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    I deeply venerated my cousin's talent and principle.  (source)
    venerated = regarded with feelings of respect and reverence
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    The way the Indians venerate this terrain now, we'll come to see it as sacred in the next century.  (source)
    venerate = regarding with feelings of respect and reverence
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    The arms at attention, the eyes ever lowered, a venerating bend to his head.  (source)
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    How he venerates it even while resisting it!†  (source)
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    Fred, in spite of his irritation, had kindness enough in him to be a little sorry for the unloved, unvenerated old man, who with his dropsical legs looked more than usually pitiable in walking.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unvenerated means not and reverses the meaning of venerated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    A fortunate chance had recommended him to Lady Catherine de Bourgh when the living of Hunsford was vacant; and the respect which he felt for her high rank, and his veneration for her as his patroness, mingling with a very good opinion of himself, of his authority as a clergyman, and his right as a rector, made him altogether a mixture of pride and obsequiousness, self-importance and humility.  (source)
    veneration = feelings of respect and reverence
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    Never before, Siddhartha had venerated a person so much, never before he had loved a person as much as this one.  (source)
    venerated = regarded with feelings of respect and reverence
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    Although Moody's countrymen officially hate Americans, they venerate the American educational system.  (source)
    venerate = respect and admire
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    We stood wordlessly there for a minute or two, venerating the cross, until the guard rubbed it out and walked away.  (source)
    venerating = regarding with feelings of reverence (worship)
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