Synonyms for venerate
ˈvɛn əˌreɪtven·er·ate

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1. venerate

   In the highest sense, to revere or reverence is to hold in mingled love and honor with something of sacred fear, as for that which while lovely is sublimely exalted and brings upon us by contrast a sense of our unworthiness or inferiority; to revere is a wholly spiritual act; to reverence is often, tho not necessarily, to give outward expression to the reverential feeling; we revere or reverence the divine majesty. Revere is a stronger word than reverence or venerate. To venerate is to hold in exalted honor without fear, and is applied to objects less removed from ourselves than those we revere, being said especially of aged persons, of places or objects having sacred associations, and of abstractions; we venerate an aged pastor, the dust of heroes or martyrs, lofty virtue or self-sacrifice, or some great cause, as that of civil or religious liberty; we do not venerate God, but revere or reverence him. We adore with a humble yet free outflowing of soul. Compare VENERATION.

   Synonyms:
   adore, honor, respect, revere, reverence

   Antonyms:
   contemn, despise, detest, disdain, dishonor, disregard, scoff at, scorn, slight, spurn

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1. reverence, fear, revere, venerateverb

   regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of

   "Fear God as your father"; "We venerate genius"

   Synonyms:
   hero-worship, fear, idolize, dread, revere, reverence, worship, idolise

Matched Categories

1. • Respect

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1. venerateverb

   Synonyms:
   reverence, revere, respect, adore, honor, regard highly

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1. venerateverb

   Synonyms:
   reverence, revere, honor, esteem

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1. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:

   As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity. The march of God in the world, that is what the State is.