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veneration|vɛnəˈreɪʃən|
Also 5–6 veneracion (6 -acyon).
[ad. L. venerātiōn-, venerātio, noun of action f. venerārī to venerate. So OF. veneration (F. vénération), It. venerazione, Sp. veneracion, Pg. veneração.]
1. A feeling of deep respect and reverence directed towards some person or thing:
a. In the phrases to have, or hold in veneration.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 389 In that londe the memory of Seynte Andrewe thapostole is haloede gretely, and hade in veneracion. Ibid. III. 193 That clerke Pictagoras was hade so in veneracion of his disciples, that [etc.]. 1548Udall Erasm. Par. Matt. v. 20 b, So men shall haue you in veneration. 1596Spenser State Irel. Wks. (Globe) 634/1 All those Northern nations..are wonte therfore to have the fire and the sunn in great veneration. 1629J. Maxwell tr. Herodian (1635) 391 In the Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus (which the Romans have in chief veneration). a1704T. Brown Praise Drunkenness Wks. 1730 I. 38 A custom framed and cemented by nature..ought to be..had in veneration by all succeeding ages. 1759Dilworth Pope 62 Mr. Pope held the duke's judgement in such high veneration [etc.]. 1833Cruse Eusebius' Eccl. Hist. vii. xix. (1847) 300 This See..has ever been held in veneration by the brethren, that have followed in the succession there.
b. In general use.
1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. §12 They would..have been of no less Esteem with the Crown, than of Veneration with the People. 1683Robinson in Ray's Corr. (1848) 133 He speaks with great veneration of you. 1774J. Bryant Mythol. II. 372 The persons..who were stiled Baalim, had a great regard paid to their memory, which at last degenerated into a most idolatrous veneration. 1791Burke App. Whigs Wks. VI. 143 That memory will be kept alive with particular veneration by all rational and honourable whigs. 1825in Ushaw Mag. Dec. (1913) 267 When I am in its company, I feel a certain awe and veneration. 1844Dickens Mart. Chuz. ix, A gentleman..whom two accomplished..females regard with veneration. 1891Nisbet Insanity of Genius 298 Simple piety or veneration seems to resolve itself into an absence of the identifying faculty.
c. Const. of or for (a person or thing).
(a)1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacræ iii. ii. § 1 All that is left, is only a kind of Veneration of a Being more excellent than our own. 1671F. Philipps Reg. Necess. 409 So tender were the Judges..of the Supreme Authority they sate under,..and had such an awe and veneration of Majesty [etc.]. 1806T. S. Surr Winter in Lond. I. 243 The old domestic..had almost intoxicated him with a silly, yet enthusiastic, veneration of old times.
(b)1681in Somers Tracts I. 131 The greatest motive that begot in me a Veneration for the Duke. 1691Norris Pract. Disc. (1698) IV. 13 He has a secret esteem and Veneration for him there [in his heart]. 1718Lady M. W. Montagu Let. to C'tess Bristol 10 April, They show here the tomb of the Emperor Constantine, for which they have a great veneration. 1759Robertson Hist. Scot. v. Wks. 1851 II. 35 She expressed a great veneration for the liturgy of the Church of England. 1841D'Israeli Amen. Lit. (1867) 106 It is unquestionable that the Reformation began to diminish the veneration for the Latin language. 1863Kinglake Crimea (1877) I. 79 At this time extravagant veneration was avowed for mechanical contrivances.
2. The action or fact of showing respect and reverence; the action or practice of venerating.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 192 b, The lower veneracyon or worshyp exhibyte & done to the sayntes of god, called in the greke dulia. a1540Barnes Wks. (1573) 357/2 What faith, what learning, what reason will that Images shoulde bee iudged worthy veneration? 1609Bible (Douay) Exod. xxxix. 29 They made also the plate of sacred veneration of most pure gold. 1663Bp. Patrick Parab. Pilgr. xxiii, He blushed exceedingly, and fell down in a humble veneration of her. 1741Warburton Div. Legat. v. Note B. Wks. 1788 III. 200 Josephus..saw well the consistency between the veneration paid to Abraham's God, and the idolatry of the venerators. 1827Hallam Const. Hist. ii. (1876) I. 86 No part of exterior religion was more prominent..than the worship, or at least veneration of images. 1852A. Jameson Leg. Madonna Introd. (1857) 18 The veneration paid to Mary in the early Church. 1882–3Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. III. 2562/1 The veneration of martyrs was accompanied by the feeling that their intercession made prayer effective.
3. The fact or condition of being venerated.
1625Bacon Ess., Of Empire (Arb.) 309 Princes are like to Heauenly Bodies,..which haue much Veneration, but no Rest. 1665Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 116 Claudian observes there was scarce any Tree that had not its veneration. 1712Spect. No. 467 §2 The various Arts..which now give a Dignity and Veneration to the Ease he does enjoy. 1750Johnson Rambler No. 71 ⁋1 They think veneration gained by such appearances of wisdom. 1774Reid Aristotle's Logic i. §1. 3 That the air of mystery might procure great veneration.
†b. In the phrase to be in (..) veneration. Obs.
1628Sir R. Le Grys tr. Barclay's Argenis 352 At that time it was in highest veneration among the Moores. 1678Hobbes Decam. i. 5 The first Astronomers were also in such veneration with the People, that they were thought to have discourse with their Gods. 1736Butler Anal. ii. vii. 335 The leaders of them are in veneration with the multitude.
Hence veneˈrational a.
1854Orr's Circ. Sci., Org. Nat. I. 310 There is little vitality in any of their venerational feelings. |