as in reverence
a feeling or act of great respect, admiration, or devotion
Holy relics are often objects of veneration. They regarded the surrealist painters of the 20th century avant-garde movement with great veneration.
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Recent Examples of veneration
It’s not known when Patrick died, but the traditional date of his death is March 17, 461 CE, and the cult around him, and his eventual veneration as a saint, took off in the centuries following.
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Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 17 Mar. 2026
Two of his followers were the parents of Kim Il Sung, and Cheng tracks how a family’s faith and American proselytizing became the roots of Kimilsungism, the ideology elevating the rulers of North Korea to a nearly deified state of veneration.
—Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
The removal of the skull, according to study authors, signifies an act of remembrance, social memory, and ancestral veneration.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 4 Jan. 2026
The relationship between mother and daughter—depicted with layered acuity and fraught with shame, disgust, love, desire, betrayal, veneration, and rage—is the burning centre of the novel.
—Hazlitt, 23 Dec. 2025
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Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 17 Mar. 2026
Two of his followers were the parents of Kim Il Sung, and Cheng tracks how a family’s faith and American proselytizing became the roots of Kimilsungism, the ideology elevating the rulers of North Korea to a nearly deified state of veneration.
—Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
The removal of the skull, according to study authors, signifies an act of remembrance, social memory, and ancestral veneration.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 4 Jan. 2026
The relationship between mother and daughter—depicted with layered acuity and fraught with shame, disgust, love, desire, betrayal, veneration, and rage—is the burning centre of the novel.
—Hazlitt, 23 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for veneration
Noun
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As though in reverence to Mary’s pain, the sculptor had limited the substitutions, but there, at the edge of the scene, sat Bambi and Thumper.—
Douglas Stuart,
New Yorker,
12 Apr. 2026
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The contrast between the bookish judge, lauded during his confirmation for his reverence of legal precedents, and the agitated, outspoken figure of recent years was especially noticeable to old friends and supporters.—
Peter S. Canellos,
The Atlantic,
10 Apr. 2026
Noun
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It's called assassination by adoration.—
Brendan Le,
PEOPLE,
9 Apr. 2026
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Their adoration, combined with spending power, has created serious commercial opportunity for labels and brands that know how to tap in.—
Lucy Maguire,
Vogue,
8 Apr. 2026
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Such institutional prejudice often surfaces, in ways both brazen and subtle, when Muslims attempt to build new places of worship or renovate existing ones.—
Connor Letourneau,
San Francisco Chronicle,
11 Apr. 2026
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Alston made use of her communications acumen in her volunteer work for her longtime church, Salem Baptist, now widely known as House of Hope after its worship center’s name.—
Bob Goldsborough,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Apr. 2026
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“Veneration.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/veneration. Accessed 19 Apr. 2026.
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