Definitions for venerate

venerate ven·er·ate

Spelling: [ven-uh-reyt]
IPA: /ˈvɛn əˌreɪt/

Venerate is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 183 anagrams from letters in venerate (aeeenrtv).

Definitions for venerate

verb (used with object)

  1. to regard or treat with reverence; revere.

Origin of venerate

1615-25; Latin venerātus, past participle of venerārī to solicit the goodwill of (a god), worship, revere, verbal derivative of vener-, stem of venus, presumably in its original sense “desire

Examples for venerate

But I don't have to venerate him and fuss over him and listen to him.

We cannot venerate any one in whom appreciation is not divorced from desire.

How else to explain what just happened: An Israeli government decided to venerate land over justice, and over life itself.

Your nature seems to require something to venerate, as well as to love.

Yet how common it is to venerate the form and to deny the spirit!

They venerate the sun as Dharam Deota, but no offerings are made to him.

Why do we slight any word of Him whom we venerate and worship under the name of the Word?

They venerate him as highly as they do the Prophet, and consider all other Musalmns to be unbelievers.

venerate him I knew that I never could; but I already pitied him exceedingly.

The man or the divinity we venerate at nineteen we instinctively bow to at forty.

Word Value for venerate
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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