veneration

Example Sentences

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Ms. Gage, who teaches American history at Yale, presents the book as an attempt, timed for the semiquincentennial, to improve the contemporary “national historical dialogue, which tends to emphasize veneration or damnation over real understanding.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

It was the first in a series of scary scenes for Brinkley, whose feelings for Joel vacillated between veneration, unconditional love and abject fear.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2025

Much of the supply comes from Hindu temples in the south of the country where hair is shaved off in an act of veneration and faith.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2025

You write this in your new book, Memory and Authority: “A distinctive feature of American constitutional culture is its quasi-religious veneration of its framers and founders.”

From Slate • May 8, 2024

Clara was the one in whom she confided her most subtle feelings, and to her she consecrated her enormous capacity for sacrifice and veneration.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende