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Another word for veneration

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Noun

  1. The act of adoring, especially reverently

    See also:

    sacred

    love

    like

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Another word for veneration

Noun
  1. See also:

    reverence

    worship

    reverence

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

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

  • In his personal relationship to the prophet he showed the deepest veneration and most unswerving devotion.

  • of Candia, was regarded with veneration in antiquity as the burial-place of Zeus.

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

  • In Ethiopia, not only was great veneration paid to the dog, but the inhabitants used to elect a dog as their king.

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