as in to worship
to offer honor or respect to (someone) as a divine power
a proper setting in which to venerate God
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Recent Examples of venerate
Detractors who bemoan the 40th president’s continued relevance to the Republican Party ignore the fact that venerating past presidents is a long-standing Democratic Party tradition.
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W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 14 Mar. 2025
Also, a subculture referred to as Saints Culture, which venerates mass killers as almost superhuman figures, frames high-casualty attacks as the ultimate and only legacy worth emulating.
—Odette Yousef, NPR, 8 Mar. 2025
Aquinas adds – and to me this is one of the most beautiful aspects of his reflections on relics – that venerating a relic is also a way of looking forward to the future resurrection of the body.
—Therese Cory, The Conversation, 28 Jan. 2025
This is the conclusion of an international team of researchers who used isotope analysis to determine whether the Iron Age skulls were of locals (and therefore being venerated in death) or outsiders (and likely nailed up as a display of intimidation and power), as had both been previously argued.
—Mark Joseph, Newsweek, 24 Feb. 2025
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W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 14 Mar. 2025
Also, a subculture referred to as Saints Culture, which venerates mass killers as almost superhuman figures, frames high-casualty attacks as the ultimate and only legacy worth emulating.
—Odette Yousef, NPR, 8 Mar. 2025
Aquinas adds – and to me this is one of the most beautiful aspects of his reflections on relics – that venerating a relic is also a way of looking forward to the future resurrection of the body.
—Therese Cory, The Conversation, 28 Jan. 2025
This is the conclusion of an international team of researchers who used isotope analysis to determine whether the Iron Age skulls were of locals (and therefore being venerated in death) or outsiders (and likely nailed up as a display of intimidation and power), as had both been previously argued.
—Mark Joseph, Newsweek, 24 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for venerate
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Think of this as the equivalent of participation in a faith community that meets to worship—a regular practice to guard against loneliness and despair, and check in with others going through a similar experience.—
Julia Angwin,
New Yorker,
12 Apr. 2025
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While religious groups argued the change infringed on their right to worship freely, Friedrich said reversing the policy wouldn't necessarily bring congregants back.—
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Apr. 2025
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For a generation of music-and-fashion obsessives, Williams, 52, is revered as the original hip-hop eccentric: highly expressive, unapologetically audacious, unafraid to flout menswear conventions, especially the hypermasculine tropes ascribed to rap music.—
Chioma Nnadi,
Vogue,
15 Apr. 2025
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Miley acknowledged that everyone in baseball loved and revered Uecker but said the longtime announcer and former catcher was an even better person behind the scenes.—
C. Trent Rosecrans,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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But Trump also reverenced the tough job Emmer has in keeping the GOP majority together, with which Emmer is all too familiar after the chaotic last two years.—
Emily Brooks,
The Hill,
3 Feb. 2025
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Saint Heron remains dedicated to empowering future art practitioners by reverencing the spiritual act of creating and spotlighting artists’ unwavering devotion to the intergenerational language of expression.—
Dominique Fluker,
Essence,
16 June 2023
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“Venerate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/venerate. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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