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Definition of Venerable

Venerable Capable of being venerated; worthy of veneration or reverence; deserving of honor and respect; -- generally implying an advanced age; as, a venerable magistrate; a venerable parent. Rendered sacred by religious or other associations; that should be regarded with awe and treated with reverence; as, the venerable walls of a temple or a church. Related Definitions: Advanced, Age, An, And, As, Awe, Be, Being, By, Capable, Church, Deserving, Generally, Honor, Implying, Magistrate, Of, Or, Other, Parent, Regarded, Religious, Rendered, Respect, Reverence, Sacred, Should, Temple, That, The, Treated, Venerable, Venerated, Veneration, With, Worthy

Venerable Quotations Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man. Henry David Thoreau Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind. Marcus Tullius Cicero In applying this subject to the melancholy event, which has deprived this Diocese of its venerable Bishop, we presume not to compare him with the blessed Apostle, of whom we have been speaking. John Strachan As a preacher of the Gospel, our late venerable Bishop must have been heard, to form an adequate conception of his superior excellence and commanding eloquence. John Strachan There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth. Frances Burney

Venerable Translations venerable in Latin is priscus, pristinus venerable in Spanish is venerado

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