Both Uses of
venerate
in
Leaves of Grass
- why should I venerate and be ceremonious?
Chpt 3 *venerate = respectful and reverent
- Faces of friendship, precision, caution, suavity, ideality,
The spiritual-prescient face, the always welcome common benevolent face,
The face of the singing of music, the grand faces of natural lawyers
and judges broad at the back-top,
The faces of hunters and fishers bulged at the brows, the shaved
blanch'd faces of orthodox citizens,
The pure, extravagant, yearning, questioning artist's face,
The ugly face of some beautiful soul, the handsome detested or
despised face,
The sacred faces of infants, the illuminated face of the mother of
many children,
The face of an amour, the face of veneration,
The face as of a dream, the face of an immobile rock,
The face withdr†Chpt 32veneration = feelings of respect and reverence
Definition:
regard with feelings of respect and reverence