Veneration Synonyms

vĕnə-rāshən
The act of adoring, especially reverently
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. adoration
  2. idolization
  3. reverence
  4. worship
Religious zeal; the willingness to serve God
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. reverence
  2. awe
  3. adoration
  4. respect
  5. worship
  6. devotion
  7. admiration
  8. fear
  9. idolatry
  10. esteem
  11. honor
  12. repayment
  13. vengeance
  14. wrath
  15. cultism
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A feeling of profound respect or reverence:
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. honor

Words Related to Veneration

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. like
  2. love
  3. sacred
  4. piety
  5. cultus

Veneration Sentence Examples

  • His mask of veneration slowly turned into a licentious grin.

  • Their religion was a nature-worship intimately connected with the veneration of ancestors.

  • Luther's colleague at Wittenberg, Carlstadt, began denouncing the monastic life, the celibacy of the clergy, the veneration of images; and before the end of 1521 we find the first characteristic outward symptoms of Protestantism.

  • In this work he for the first time systematized an old Oriental (perhaps Phoenician) method of interpreting the popular myths, asserting that the gods who formed the chief objects of popular worship had been originally heroes and conquerors, who had thus earned a claim to the veneration of their subjects.

  • In Paris, too, at this time he made a whimsical but pleasant friendship. Marie de Jars de Gournay (1565-1645), one of the most learned ladies of the 16th and 17th centuries, had conceived such a veneration for the author of the Essays that, though a very young girl and connected with many noble families, she travelled to the capital on purpose to make his acquaintance.

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