veneration
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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
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
I realized that I didn’t know much about how the religion honors the fall aside from Rosh Hashana, a veneration of the harvest marking the Jewish new year, followed by the High Holy days.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2024
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
Throughout the Greek world and the Roman, too, they were held in especial veneration.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
Vocabulary lists containing veneration
Pride and Prejudice
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The Federalist Papers, No. 14 by James Madison
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Society and Solitude
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