venerable
adjective
commanding respect because of great age or impressive dignity; worthy of veneration or reverence, as because of high office or noble character.
quasi-venerable
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a word derived from
venerable.
Example Sentences
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This quasi-venerable site is a little holm a hundred yards in diameter, somewhat larger than the many which line the river's western bank.
From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Sir Richard Francis Burton
