venerate
verb (used with object)
to regard or treat with reverence; revere.
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Fred, in spite of his irritation, had kindness enough in him to be a little sorry for the unloved, unvenerated old man, who with his dropsical legs looked more than usually pitiable in walking.
From Middlemarch by George Eliot