venerated

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By them she was understood and venerated, and their admiration filled her with ecstasy.

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  1. transitive verb To regard with respect, reverence, or heartfelt deference. See Synonyms at revere1.

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  • It's a never-ending fascination to me the religious objects in Europe that are venerated, and I have now seen a good number of them - Jesus 'blood, fragments of the cross, the Turin Shroud, bodies of dead saints, etc. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • The veneer of visage reveals a vestige of vanity, rapidly becoming vanished, having wrongly vilifed the vital, virtuous voice of a past-venerated America, using venal vexation and veiled verbiage, beneath which hides the true velleity. —  Latest Articles
  • The initial blow was followed by the joy of seeing His greatness, of seeing Him honored, venerated, and loved by the people; and quickly this wound also healed. —  ScreenTalk
  • In reality however the object they had secretly venerated was the Shroud. —  Signs of the Times
  • Hanging over all this is the threat of a bleak economy that has put millions out of work and once-venerated American corporations teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. —  Kansas City Star: Front Page
 

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