英:['venəreɪtə]
美:['venəreɪtə]
英:['venəreɪtə]
美:['venəreɪtə]
verb
transitive verb
to regard with reverential respect or with admiring deference
to honor (an icon, a relic, etc.) with a ritual act of devotion
borrowed from Latin venerātus, past participle of Latin venerārī "to solicit the good will of (a deity), worship, pay homage to, hold in awe," verbal derivative of vener-, venus "sexual desire, qualities exciting desire, charm, (as proper noun) goddess personifying sexual attractiveness" (probably originally in cognate accusative phrase Venerem venerārī "to propitiate Venus," extended to other deities) — more at venus
The first known use of venerate was circa 1623
venulenoun
a small veinespecially: one of the minute veins connecting blood capillaries with larger veins
venerateverb
to show deep respect for
venerated their ancestors
1 I like the fact that we name our most passionate readers not after the venerators, but after the destroyers of books.
2 Appear, then, once more in the circle of your friends, your admirers, your venerators; this is our first and most urgent request.
3 Mr. Core was one of the most venerated citizens in the community, venerated for his power, his success and his aloofness from his venerators.
4 They are divided by a desire to laugh and an immense pity for the venerator.
5 Moreover, wherever this king was, he always showed himself a venerator and most devout adorer of the Holy Cross and of other symbols and holy things of the Christian religion.
6 What a widespread enthusiastic following he had, how many warm friends and venerators!
7 As a venerator of freedom and of liberty he regarded the Bible as the greatest text-book of freedom.
8 "Art thou not ashamed, my son, to have brought such a charge against the venerator of the Saints, one of the few in whom faith yet lives?"
9 a writer venerated by generations of admirers
10 She is venerated as a saint.
11 Some students note that leaders of Morehouse and other HBCUs did not always support King and other Civil Rights activists who are venerated today.
12 Fellow venerated director John Carpenter paid tribute to Corman with a social media post on Saturday evening.