venerate

• “All-Pure Mother of God, and in faith we hold in honour and venerate σαρξ) is the Greek word for "flesh".”

  Sarx

• “Was Mitt Romney rejected by the same people that "venerate" Michelle Obama?”

  Dan Agin: Michelle Obama and the Poison of National Review

• “Of course Catholics say they don't do this - they simply "venerate" Mary and if this were so, then there is really little between Catholic and Protestant theologically, except on the middle-man status of the confessional.”

  Archive 2008-04-01

• “I don't know that I "venerate" the Constitution, but I most certainly do oppose tinkering with it in the name of "updating".”

  "A 'bill of particulars' against the Constitution."

• “Since the Bible doesn't enjoin us to "venerate" Mary in the way that Catholics do, the fact that we refrain from so doing is hardly "unbiblical.”

  Triablogue

• “We 'venerate' our parents in some sense, but not in the same sense that we 'venerate' God.”

  Triablogue

• “Laws of Manu or the Analects does not mean that I "venerate" European high culture; it just means that I know the origins of our regulative political ideals, and I think students should come broadly to know them, too -- and, since you persist in obscuring the point, it means that if emphasis on political correctness and multiculturalism in high school textbooks of history or politics, etc., is interfering with the acquisition of that knowledge, then that emphasis is pernicious.”

  NEWS.com.au | Top Stories

• “I hope, however, in my ministerial office to do impartial justice to a man whose talents I admired, whose virtues I venerate, and whose untimely death I shall always deplore.”

  Letter 388

• “Yes, the entrepreneurs we are taught to venerate have been key to all this, but dig a little deeper and you soon find that most of their oil was on public lands, their technology nurtured or invented thanks to government-sponsored R&D, or supported by excellent public infrastructure and the possibility of hiring well-educated workers produced by a heavily subsidized higher-education system.”

  The Huffington Post: Christian Parenti: Why Climate Change Will Make You Love Big Government

• “For example, the moment when the recent great Australia team first began to openly venerate and quail before the baggy green cap, tearful with galvanising hat-love.”

  The Guardian: Colonial promiscuity in danger of diluting test cricket's pleasures | Barney Ronay

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