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Core action
Regard or treat someone or something with profound respect, reverence, or devotion.
Example
Many communities venerate the river as sacred.
venerate
/ˈvenəreɪt/ · VEN-uh-raytverb
Regard or treat someone or something with profound respect, reverence, or devotion.
Use venerate to express this relationship precisely: regard or treat someone or something with profound respect, reverence, or devotion.
What venerate Really Means
The word becomes easier to use when its closely related senses are separated and compared.
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Common construction
Use this expression in its normal grammatical frame so the relationship between the surrounding ideas remains explicit.
Example
Later writers venerated the poet as a national icon.
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Reasoning effect
It tells the reader how to interpret the timing, scope, evidence, contrast, condition, or consequence in the statement.
Example
To study a thinker is not necessarily to venerate every claim.
Use venerate Naturally
Notice how the surrounding noun or clause reveals the exact shade of meaning.
Many communities venerate the river as sacred.
Later writers venerated the poet as a national icon.
To study a thinker is not necessarily to venerate every claim.
Precision Matters
Venerate overlaps with several common words, but each carries a different emphasis.
venerate
vs.Means regard or treat someone or something with profound respect, reverence, or devotion.
commend
Means praise or express approval of someone or something, especially for a worthy action or quality.
venerate
vs.Means regard or treat someone or something with profound respect, reverence, or devotion.
prestige
Means high respect, admiration, status, or influence gained through achievement, quality, reputation, or association.
venerate
vs.Means regard or treat someone or something with profound respect, reverence, or devotion.
condemn
Means express strong disapproval of something as wrong, harmful, or unacceptable; sometimes formally sentence someone to punishment.
venerate
vs.Means regard or treat someone or something with profound respect, reverence, or devotion.
acclaim
Means enthusiastic and public praise.
Test venerate in Context
They regard the figure with profound reverence, not merely approval.
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For generations, residents have continued to ___ the healer as a sacred ancestral figure.