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Another word for revere

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revere

v.

reverence, venerate, worship, respect, adore, idolize, exalt, glorify, honor, admire, esteem, worship the ground someone walks on*; see also admire 1.

revere implies regarding with great respect, affection, honor, or deference a poet revered by all; reverence, more or less equivalent to revere, is usually applied to a thing or abstract idea rather than to a person they reverence the memory of their parents; venerate implies revering because of great age, dignity, or character and may suggest regarding as sacred or holy he was venerated as a saint; worship, in strict usage, implies the use of ritual or verbal formula in paying homage to a divine being, but broadly suggests intense, often uncritical love or admiration he worshiped his wife; adore, in strict usage, implies a personal or individual worshiping of a deity, but in broad usage, suggests a great love for someone and, colloquially, a great liking for something I adore your hat

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To regard with great awe and devotion:

adore, idolize, reverence, venerate, worship. See sacred

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Historical scholars will, however, revere this collection of dialogues as one of the most priceless of the treasures of antiquity still preserved to us.
In 1775 Revere was sent by the Massachusetts provincial congress to Philadelphia to study the working of the only powder mill in the colonies, and although he was allowed only to pass through the building, obtained sufficient information to enable him to set up a powder mill at Canton.
The commonalty revere him and kiss his hand; the rich show him at least outward respect; and even the government treats him as a person to whom consideration is due for his influence with the masses.
In the sense of "revere" or "respect," the verb "to worship" occurs in the English Prayer-book, in the phrase "with my body I thee worship" in the Marriage Service.
"If a man's fame," says KOppen, "can be measured by the number of hearts who revere his memory, by the number of lips who have mentioned, and still mention him with honour, Asoka is more famous than Charlemagne or Caesar."

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