venerate
verb (used with object)
to regard or treat with reverence; revere.
venerates
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present tense formof venerate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Within a legal profession that venerates judges and worships the Supreme Court, this is borderline heresy.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026
His considerable height, lean frame and beard only added to the sense that, at least in spirit, Mr. Glass has succeeded in summoning the man he so clearly venerates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
In her poem “Entering,” Vicuña venerates “ ‘the quipu that remembers nothing,’ an empty string,” and I’d always understood that line as an expression of mourning for lost Indigenous knowledge.
From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2022
Boy Gru venerates these villains and wants to join them.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 29, 2022
He dislikes change in his methods, and he venerates those which have come down to him from his fathers' fathers.
From The Rural Life Problem of the United States Notes of an Irish Observer by Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett
