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- noun Plural form of
veneration .
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Piety is most commonly identified with the externals of religious devotions including personal attitudes of heart and mind expressed in prayer and spiritual writings, and descriptions of, pilgrimages to, and venerations of holy people, holy places or holy things.
Part I: Piety the Gift elena maria vidal 2009
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The mourners, women first, would come as soon as it was dark to start their venerations, weeping till their shoulders shook, tapping on the floorboards with their boots and sticks, rattling their bracelets and their cuffs.
Archive 2006-03-01 2006
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The mourners, women first, would come as soon as it was dark to start their venerations, weeping till their shoulders shook, tapping on the floorboards with their boots and sticks, rattling their bracelets and their cuffs.
Posting the Dead 2006
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In him, many young men found a benefactor who blended instruction with temporal benefits; so mild and persuasive were this good moollah's monitions, that he lived in the affection, venerations and respect of his pupils, as a fond father in the love of his children.
Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society Mrs. Meer Hasan Ali 1885
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For surely there are subtler venerations, such as will invisibly destroy, and like the basilisks of heaven.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864
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What do you think of that, -- with affections, venerations, loves, sympathies, swelling around you like a tide?
Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter Orville Dewey 1838
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Actually, the venerations began at the start of Sunday's All-Star Game as Bob Gainey, a former player and the current GM of the team, and Jean Beliveau, a 10-time Stanley Cup winner, took part in the ceremonial faceoff to kick off the game.
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