Both Uses of
venerate
in
The Scarlet Letter
- The remainder may perhaps be applied to purposes equally valuable hereafter, or not impossibly may be worked up, so far as they go, into a regular history of Salem, should my veneration for the natal soil ever impel me to so pious a task.†
p. 30.6veneration = feelings of respect and reverence
- It is inconceivable, the agony with which this public veneration tortured him.
p. 132.8 *
Definition:
regard with feelings of respect and reverence