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venerating
adjective as in devout
adjective as in obedient
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- acquiescent
- amenable
- at one's beck and call
- biddable
- complaisant
- controllable
- docious
- duteous
- governable
- honoring
- in one's clutches
- in one's pocket
- in one's power
- obeisant
- obliging
- observant
- on a string
- pliant
- regardful
- resigned
- reverential
- sheeplike
- tame
- tractable
- under control
- well-trained
- willing
- wrapped around finger
- yielding
adjective as in respectful
Example Sentences
For decades, maybe centuries (the details are murky), some people in Mexico had been venerating a kind of sanctified death figure.
In his eyes was a reverence that amounted to venerating love, wistful adoration!
The monuments themselves then came to be venerated,—and not the less because the reason for venerating them was no longer known.
Once more he uttered the benediction, and saw the faces of men and women lifted towards him in venerating love.
Venerating, adoring, I bowed my head at last to kiss her snow-white robe, and trembled at my presumption.
I can understand a man venerating it as a ruin; and I can understand a man despising it as a rubbish-heap.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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