All 6 Uses of
venerable
in
War and Peace
- "Can a sleigh pass?" he asked his overseer, a venerable man, resembling his master in manners and looks, who was accompanying him back to the house.†
Chpt 3 *venerable = respected (worthy of respect) -- typically because of age or position
- "I had no chance to talk with you, Prince, during the animated conversation in which that venerable gentleman involved me," he said with a mildly contemptuous smile, as if intimating by that smile that he and Prince Andrew understood the insignificance of the people with whom he had just been talking.†
Chpt 6
- now expelled all the French residents from Moscow, and now allowed Madame Aubert-Chalme (the center of the whole French colony in Moscow) to remain, but ordered the venerable old postmaster Klyucharev to be arrested and exiled for no particular offense;†
Chpt 11
- On the box beside the driver sat a venerable old attendant.†
Chpt 11
- At Anna Pavlovna's on the twenty-sixth of August, the very day of the battle of Borodino, there was a soiree, the chief feature of which was to be the reading of a letter from His Lordship the Bishop when sending the Emperor an icon of the Venerable Sergius.†
Chpt 12
- This icon of the Venerable Sergius, the servant of God and zealous champion of old of our country's weal, is offered to Your Imperial Majesty.†
Chpt 12
Definitions:
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(1)
(venerable) respected (worthy of respect) -- typically because of age or position
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, venerable can be used as a specific religious title whose exact meaning depends upon the religious denomination, but when given, is only to a small number or people who are exceptionally respected and admired.