veneration

venerate | American Dictionary

venerate
verb[ T ]
us/ˈven·əˌreɪt/
to honor or have great respect for a person or thing:
The American writer Mark Twain has been venerated for almost a century.

Examples of venerate

venerate
As such, they provide a tangible link with the celestial, especially when they are cared for, venerated and carried in procession.
After all, could one whose occupation it is to venerate a given ruler be expected to change allegiances?
Under these circumstances, how could he really venerate his teacher?
It is only in proportion as he venerates the spot, independent of what he at present sees there, that he can properly estimate its sanctity.
They cherish the individual; we venerate institutional authority.
Many theists venerate saints and angels, and it seems to be extremely difficult to distinguish veneration from worship.
Agricultural labour, house construction and road paving were venerated as 'pioneering', but several sources reveal that cleaning remained unprestigious.
It bucked the then-prevailing tendency to venerate only ' ' straight ' ' photography at the expense of pictorialism and other forms of ' ' manipulation ' ' in the medium.
Intuitively, the same people who now venerate relics might express special enthusiasm for organ donations.
It is clear that the faithful venerated his house into the 20th century.
He ordered each to prepare and pay for a banquet for their clan heads and others to venerate their ancestors so as to build an amicable relationship.
These figures could represent important ancestors or perhaps are representations of deities who may have been petitioned, venerated, or de-animated through the practice of incense burning.
As a result, fan discourse asserts the reality of the desiring subject more than it provides a solid, trustworthy account of the structure that inheres in the object it venerates.
Furthermore, the social definition of a monument is seriously affected by what has been imposed as collective social memory venerated and worshipped in the rituals of nationalism.
Kasombola were venerated as spirits of the water, as they would come to be in later years.
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