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

"Today we can't imagine the veneration of Hindu, Jain or Buddhist divine spirits or deities without a human form, can we? Which is what makes this transition so interesting," says Sushma Jansari, the exhibition's curator.

From BBC • Jun. 20, 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

Those outside Oppie’s charmed circle found it all rather bewildering— even Enrico Fermi, who should have recognized the behavior, since he was the object of similar veneration by his own students.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik