veneration
ve nuh ray shuhn
- n a feeling of profound respect for someone or something
his respect for the law bordered on veneration - n religious zeal; the willingness to serve God
- In Chasing Amy, he found the poignancy in male bluster, the warmth in a guy's rivalry with and veneration of that other species, The Girl.
- That makes al-Askari one of Shi'ite Islam's holiest sites, exceeded in veneration only by the shrines of Najaf and Karbala.
- When the parrot dies, she has it stuffed and set in her room among her items of religious veneration.