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• v  regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of
  We venerate genius

• In a place like Goodland, where democracy is new and fragile, people venerate their constitution as if it were the work of a Nobel laureate.
• Beatification will confirm Pius' "heroic virtue," affirm a miracle (a nun's broken kneecap healed) and encourage Catholics to venerate his remains, which will be transferred to a .
• And when fans search the past, they look to venerate artists who were once pariahs.

• reverence
• fear
• revere

News & Articles

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• The Supreme Court's Tortured Reasoning Brings New Meaning To 'Sausage-Making'
  The Supreme Court is finishing up its latest term, releasing its most controversial decisions last. Americans venerate the Constitution. Politicians praise the nation’s founding document. But judges determine its meaning by interpreting its words.
  June 17, 2013 - Forbes

Quotes

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• Duong Thu Huong in AFP
  His companions were terrified it would damage his saint-like image,Huong told AFP. "In the West, people worship youth. But in Asia, it is the opposite, we venerate old people. He was not allowed to be a lover and a husband, to waste his...
• St Jerome in Zenit News Agency
  St. Jerome writes that "we do not worship, we do not adore" them, "but we venerate the relics of the martyrs in order the better to adore him whose martyrs they are" ("Letter to Riparius I," PLXXII, 907).