All 3 Uses of
venerate
in
War and Peace
- what feeling except veneration could such a man as my father evoke?
Chpt 1 *veneration = respect and reverence
- At the moment the door opened and the stranger came in, Pierre felt a sense of awe and veneration such as he had experienced in his boyhood at confession; he felt himself in the presence of one socially a complete stranger, yet nearer to him through the brotherhood of man.†
Chpt 5
- In spite of this the old man inspired in all his visitors alike a feeling of respectful veneration—especially of an evening when he came in to tea in his old-fashioned coat and powdered wig and, aroused by anyone, told his abrupt stories of the past, or uttered yet more abrupt and scathing criticisms of the present.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(venerate) regard with feelings of respect and reverence