venerable

• “The word venerable originates from the name Venus, the Roman goddess of love and sexuality.”

  Simon & Schuster: God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu …

• “How I shall henceforth dwell on the blessed hours when, not long since, I saw that benignant face, the clear eyes, the silently smiling mouth, the form yet upright in its great age—to the very last, with so much spring and cheeriness, and such an absence of decrepitude, that even the term venerable hardly seem’d fitting.”

  By Emerson’s Grave. Specimen Days

• “How I shall henceforth dwell on the blessed hours when, not long since, I saw that benignant face, the clear eyes, the silently smiling mouth, the form yet upright in its great age -- to the very last, with so much spring and cheeriness, and such an absence of decrepitude, that even the term venerable hardly seem'd fitting.”

  Specimen Days; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose

• “arguments" the term venerable is used instead of mouldy, and hallowed instead of devilish; whereas there is nothing properly venerable or antique about a language which is not yet four hundred years old, and about a jumble of imbecile spellings which were grotesque in the beginning, and which grow more and more grotesque with the flight of the years.”

  Chapters from My Autobiography

• “I didn't realize the word, venerable, is associated with age.”

  A Special Day at the Wabi-Sabi House

• “And I might have used it as did a certain venerable skipper, who, when No. 3 was empty, mixed a dose from No. 1 and No. 2, or, when No. 7 was all gone, dosed his crew with 4 and 3 till 3 gave out, when he used”

  Chapter 17

• “But hear me, my venerable sister --- start not at the word venerable; it implies many praiseworthy qualities besides age; though that too is honourable, albeit it is the last quality for which womankind would wish to be honoured --- But perpend my words: let Lovel and me have forthwith the relics of the chicken-pie, and the reversion of the port. '”

  The Antiquary

• “This pile was venerable from its antiquity, and from its Gothic structure; but more venerable from the virtues which it enclosed.”

  The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne: A Highland Story

• “Emperor of the Romans, a name venerable from the fame of the old Empire, and which was supposed to carry great and unknown prerogatives; and thus the Empire rose again out of its ruins in the West, and, what is remarkable, by means of one of those nations which had helped to destroy it.”

  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12)

• “• Despite damning allegations made against him, Pope Pius XII was declared "venerable" - a posthumous recognition of virtue - in September 2000, putting him one step closer to official sainthood.”

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