Both Uses

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Silas Marner
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Even if any brain in Raveloe had put the said two facts together, I doubt whether a combination so injurious to the prescriptive respectability of a family with a mural monument and venerable tankards, would not have been suppressed as of unsound tendency.†
Chpt 1.10 *

venerable = respected (worthy of respect) -- typically because of age or position
It certainly did make some difference to Nancy that the lover she had given up was the young man of quite the highest consequence in the parish—at home in a venerable and unique parlour, which was the extremity of grandeur in her experience, a parlour where she might one day have been mistress, with the consciousness that she was spoken of as "Madam Cass", the Squire's wife.†
Chpt 1.11

Definitions:

(1) (venerable)
respected (worthy of respect) -- typically because of age or position
(2) (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.