veneration

See also: vénération

English

Etymology

From Middle French vénération, from Old French veneracion, from Latin veneratio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌvɛnəˈɹeɪʃən/

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• Hyphenation: ven‧e‧ra‧tion
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

veneration (countable and uncountable, plural venerations)

1. The act of venerating or the state of being venerated.
3. Profound reverence, respect or awe.
   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Chiswick Mall”, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 2:

     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.

4. Religious zeal, idolatry or devotion.

Derived terms

• overveneration
• venerational

Related terms

• venereal
• Venus

Translations

the act of venerating

• Arabic: تَبْجِيل (tabjīl)
• Catalan: veneració f
• Czech: uctívání n
• Finnish: kunnioittaminen (fi), kunnioitus (fi)
• Galician: veneración (gl) f
• Georgian: თაყვანისცემა (taq̇vaniscema), პატივისცემა (ṗaṭiviscema), მოწიწება (moc̣ic̣eba), მოკრძალება (moḳrʒaleba)
• Latin: cultus (la) m
• Romanian: venerare (ro) f
• Russian: почита́ние (ru) n (počitánije)
• Spanish: veneración (es) f
• Swedish: vörda (sv)

profound reverence

• Arabic: تَعْظِيم (ar) (taʕẓīm)
• Czech: úcta (cs) f
• Faroese: ærufrykt
• Finnish: kunnioitus (fi)
• Galician: veneración (gl)
• Irish: urraim f, ómós m
• Latin: cultus (la) m
• Norwegian: høyaktelse
• Romanian: venerație (ro) f
• Spanish: veneración (es) f
• Turkish: hürmet (tr)

religious zeal, idolatry or devotion

• Finnish: palvonta (fi)
• Spanish: veneración (es) f

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Translations to be checked

• French: vénération (fr) f
• Latin: veneratio f

Anagrams

• Evertonian, enervation