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Example sentences for "venerate"

Lexicographically close words:
venerabile; venerabili; venerabilis; venerable; venerat; venerated; venerates; venerating; veneration; venereal
  1. They have learned to venerate all this, and, some of them, to love it.

  2. But it is not so hard to love and venerate him who felt it.

  3. The Bogor country-folk greatly venerate these relics of a glorious past.

  4. Among the saints of El-Islam, Joseph the father of the Christian prophet Jesus, is the one whom Javanese matrons venerate above all others; from him they implore the gift of beauty for their children.

  5. This Batu Tulis, for instance; though they venerate it as a record of the Hindoo empire, they yet, at the same time, honour it as a monument of the Mohammedan conquest.

  6. Who shuns true friends flies fortune in the concrete Who venerate when they love Who rises from Prayer a better man, his prayer is answered Who cannot talk!

  7. As to an evil report of a neighbor, the opinion of the frivolous is lightly regarded, the calumny of the known slanderer is discredited by all who venerate truth, and the character of the known liar is a sufficient antidote to falsehood.

  8. Learn all the children to venerate it as a superior being in the form of a bird, or as a being which will haunt them if any harm is done to itself or its eggs.

  9. The remembrance of a person I so highly esteem and venerate affords me the happiest consolations, and your patriarchal situation delights me--such as I expected from you.

  10. It would be a gross and pedantic superstition to venerate any form of society in itself, apart from the safety, breadth, or sweetness which it lent to individual happiness.

  11. In fortunate cases love may glide imperceptibly into settled domestic affections, giving them henceforth a touch of ideality; for when love dies in the odour of sanctity people venerate his relics.

  12. Like most of her sex in Germany she has been reared to venerate the uniform so much that anything done by the man who wears it is quite excusable.

  13. The rumor spread, and many persons went to the island to see and venerate the hut in which he had lived.

  14. This must be considered not as a mere nicety of feeling, but as a sentiment inspired by faith, which teaches us to venerate the word of God.

  15. These opinions gradually spread and brought over many to esteem and venerate him; even those who had despised and insulted him, came forward to solicit his forgiveness.

  16. In ecclesiastical history we find that God had often caused the relics of His saints to be discovered, in order to do them honor, and the Holy Fathers have taught the faithful to venerate them and to preserve them with great care.

  17. It was not quite in chance, for I wanted to go to Milan, solely to venerate St. Ambrose once more, and to thank him for all the blessings I have had as a Catholic and a Priest, since the day that I said Mass over his body.

  18. I'd rather Forego even now, or fail in our intent, Than see the man I venerate subside From high resolves into such shallow weakness!

  19. They should not take Their holy names in vain; and they should also be taught to respect and venerate the temples of God, the places of worship of their fathers and mothers.

  20. Teach them to venerate and to hold in honorable remembrance their parents, and to help all those who are helpless and needy.

  21. Our children should be taught to venerate that which is holy, that which is sacred.

  22. In the passages of this catacomb are misguiding inscriptions placed here in 1409 by William, Archbishop of Bourges, calling upon the faithful to venerate here the tombs of Sta.

  23. Early converts from paganism retained the heathen custom of turning round to venerate the sun before entering a church, so that in the old basilica, as here, the mosaic was thus placed to give a fitting object of worship.

  24. You see what great strength and divine zeal are given to those who venerate the images of the saints with faith and a pure conscience.

  25. I venerate and worship angels and men, and all matter participating in divine power and ministering to our salvation through it.

  26. I honour all matter besides, and venerate it.

  27. In this way he made them understand how little all those things availed, and how vain were the threats which the devil uttered against those who would not venerate him; and, in brief, that this was all falsehood and deceit.

  28. It is said that when the Angel came down from heaven to venerate the spotless Virgin, and announce to her the Incarnation of the Son of God in her most chaste womb, she was alone in her room.

  29. Let us venerate the sceptre, which is the first of staves.

  30. In England they venerate so many laws, that they never repeal any.

  31. Thus, so long as the bronze endures, the world will know that we venerate the character and achievements of Columbus, and the spot where Christian civilization took its rise in the New World.

  32. Go home and venerate the myth I thus have experimented with-- This man, continue to adore him Rather than all who went before him, And all who ever followed after!

  33. But likewise have in awe because of power, Venerate for the main munificence, And give the doubtful deed its due excuse From the acknowledged creature of a day To the Eternal and Divine.

  34. More than that, he can’t reverence and venerate those wonderful souls who shower down so freely for everybody the greatness that is in them.

  35. I do like, and I most sincerely hope that whilst I possess life I may venerate and admire with unstinted admiration, this sort of noble and great men.

  36. They venerate his perfect holiness,--so do we.

  37. For what but this do we venerate the heroic Stephen, and every other martyr who bore witness to the truth in the early days of Christianity?

  38. It is while in this state of passion, however, that men understand him better, and venerate him more highly at these moments--for then he is one step nearer and more akin to them.

  39. There I soon came to venerate Stephano, the noble head of the family of the Colonnesi, like some ancient hero, and was in turn treated by him in every respect like a son.

  40. For, as you have read in Valerius, our ancestors were wont to regard those who could not venerate princes as capable of any form of crime.

  41. I venerate thee, great queen, and give thee thanks for the many favors thou hast bestowed on me in the past.

  42. The Church therefore teaches, first, that it is right and pleasing to God to venerate the saints and to invoke their intercession; and second, that it is useful and profitable to eternal salvation for us to do so.

  43. Ardently desiring to see once more and to venerate the sacred body which had given flesh and blood to his beloved Master, the grave was opened for this purpose.

  44. When Sister Emmerich visited it in spirit she was accustomed to venerate the spots where the Cross had stood and the Holy Sepulchre been situated.

  45. The medical counsellor from Druffel, who was present at this examination in the capacity of doctor, never ceased to venerate her.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "venerate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    admire; adore; appreciate; cherish; commemorate; deify; esteem; exalt; favor; fear; glorify; hallow; honor; idolize; look; love; observe; praise; prize; regard; respect; revere; reverence; solemnize; treasure; value; venerate; worship