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• v  regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of
• s  feeling or manifesting veneration

• Or are we both merely venerating, financially and artistically, the tastes of our youths that we are too stubborn or eternally adolescent to outgrow?.
• Indeed, the city's packed yoga classes overflowed with believers, instructors who started class by venerating the Prophet Muhammad on his birthday, Ramadan classes where everyone .
• But the Japanese have a history of venerating and praying for animals that die for the well-being of humans and sometimes erect statues and hold festivals to comfort the animals .

• reverence
• fear
• revere
• venerate
• respectful
• reverential

News & Articles

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• China marks Mao's 120th birthday with low-key celebrations
  As heirs of the authoritarian one-party political system imposed by Mao and his Communist party comrades, China's current leadership has a strong interest in venerating his memory in a bid to bolster their own legitimacy. But they have also pledged to undertake market reforms needed to rejuvenate a slowing economy, measures that would have been anathema to Mao.
  Dec. 26, 2013 - Fox News

Quotes

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• John McCain in NPR
  Then with his sandal, the guard drew a cross in the dirt,McCain said. "We stood wordlessly there for a minute or two, venerating the cross, until the guard rubbed it out and walked away. To me, that was faith: a faith that unites and never...
• Antonin Scalia in Morons.org
  Scalia wrote a separate concurrence, "there is nothing unconstitutional in a State's favoring religion generally, honoring God through public prayer and acknowledgment, or, in a nonproselytizing manner, venerating the Ten Commandments."
• Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Anatolian Times
  No one can compete with us for venerating our flag,said Erdogan, adding that some people were trying to cast aspersions on the government's attitude.