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Definition
regard with feelings of respect and reverence
- I deeply venerated my cousin's talent and principle.Chapter 35 (17% in)
venerated = regarded with feelings of respect and reverence
- I suppose I have a considerable organ of veneration, for I retain yet the sense of admiring awe with which my eyes traced her steps.Chapter 5 (59% in)
- Then they seemed so familiar with French names and French authors: but my amazement reached its climax when Miss Temple asked Helen if she sometimes snatched a moment to recall the Latin her father had taught her, and taking a book from a shelf, bade her read and construe a page of Virgil; and Helen obeyed, my organ of veneration expanding at every sounding line.Chapter 8 (78% in)
- I felt veneration for St. John — veneration so strong that its impetus thrust me at once to the point I had so long shunned.Chapter 35 (79% in)
- I felt veneration for St. John — veneration so strong that its impetus thrust me at once to the point I had so long shunned.Chapter 35 (79% in)
There are no more uses of "venerate" in Jane Eyre.
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