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Of persons: Worthy of being venerated, revered, or highly respected and esteemed, on account of… As an epithet of ecclesiastics (or ecclesiastical…
As a respectful epithet applied to members of the clergy (or occasionally of a religious order): worthy of great respect; to be treated with due…