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veneration - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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Noun
veneration (countable and uncountable, plural venerations)
- The act of venerating or the state of being venerated.
- Profound reverence, respect or awe.
- ✤ In Miss Jemima’s eyes an autograph letter of her sister, Miss Pinkerton, was an object of as deep veneration as would have been a letter from a sovereign.1
- Religious zeal, idolatry or devotion.
Etymology
From Middle French vénération, from Old French veneracion, from Latin veneratio.
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˌvɛnəˈɹeɪʃən/
- Audio (US): 🔊
- Hyphenation: ven‧e‧ra‧tion
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
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Link to original Footnotes
1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Chiswick Mall”, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 2: ↩
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