All 4 Uses of
venerate
in
Bleak House
- Guster disappears, glad to get out of the shop, which she regards with mingled dread and veneration as a storehouse of awful implements of the great torture of the law—a place not to be entered after the gas is turned off.†
Chpt 10-12
- The son, inheriting his mother's belief, and having the deportment always before him, had lived and grown in the same faith, and now, at thirty years of age, worked for his father twelve hours a day and looked up to him with veneration on the old imaginary pinnacle.†
Chpt 13-15
- His remote impressions of the robes and coronets, the stars and garters, that sparkle through the surface-dust of Mr. Tulkinghorn's chambers; his veneration for the mysteries presided over by that best and closest of his customers, whom all the Inns of Court, all Chancery Lane, and all the legal neighbourhood agree to hold in awe; his remembrance of Detective Mr. Bucket with his forefinger and his confidential manner, impossible to be evaded or declined, persuade him that he is a party…†
Chpt 25-27
- He is my husband's best and dearest friend, he is our children's darling, he is the object of our deepest love and veneration.
Chpt 66-67 *veneration = feelings of respect and reverence
Definition:
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(venerate) regard with feelings of respect and reverence