How To Use Veneration In A Sentence
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They were not objects of respect and veneration; they became objects of mockery.
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IVC seals depict animals, perhaps as the object of veneration, comparable to the zoomorphic aspects of some Hindu gods.
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I shall probably never see thee more; but in quitting thy white-cliffed shores, I quit not my ardent attachment and veneration for thee; -- and now for _thy_ eldest daughter beyond the ocean!
Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume II. (of 2)
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With what astonishment and veneration may we look into our own soul, where there are such hidden stores of virtue and knowledge, such inexhausted sources of perfection!
The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant
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Indeed it is urged, that it is suitable to the goodness of God, to imprint upon the minds of men characters and notions of himself, and not to leave them in the dark and doubt in so grand a concernment; and also, by that means, to secure to himself the homage and veneration due from so intelligent a creature as man; and therefore he has done it.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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Later, elaborate designs were carved on precious wood, ivory and metals, including silver and brass, and inlaid with gold and silver wire, and they became votive objects of veneration for devotees.
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THERE is in the Church an abundance and a rich variety of what we call devotions -- practices that express our respect, affection and veneration for the chosen friends of God.
Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals
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The reliquary will remain in Church Street until 7.30 pm tomorrow when it will be moved across the Liffey to Merchants Quay church where there will be short period for veneration.
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Wood was often, if not exclusively, used for the earliest Greek temple-images, those rude xoana, of which many survived into the historical period, to be regarded with peculiar veneration.
A History of Greek Art
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+ "A dyaloge of Syr Thomas More Knyght ... of divers maters, as of the veneration and worshyp of ymages and relyques, praying to sayntys and goyng on pylgrymage ...
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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With the canonisation of the Confessor in 1161, his regalia gained the status of holy relics, further increasing the veneration with which they were regarded.
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She had the undoubting, uninquiring reverence which a Christianly educated child of those times might entertain for the visible head of the Christian Church, all whose doings were to be regarded with an awful veneration which never even raised a question.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861
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-- As budding radicals, it does seem as though Eva and Franco Mattes wanted to give the finger to the art world and art history, with its hero worship, its veneration of dead objects, its stale preciosities.
Couple stole more than other artists' ideas
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Sometimes it has seemed difficult to separate the primordial pagan origins of holy well veneration in specific localities from the orthodox church-approved beliefs and devotional practices.
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When mom is single by choice or circumstance or raising children in a two-mom family (what I call maverick moms), society's veneration of the so-called "traditional family" only adds to the holiday burden.
Peggy Drexler: Mom, the Holidays Are a Time to Chill
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There is enormous hypocrisy surrounding the pious veneration of the Constitution and ‘the rule of law.’
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The sublime is a concept that was first imagined in the first century AD by Longinus (but not really rediscovered until the sixteenth century), for whom the sublime was about greatness, loftiness, and elevation, inspiring awe and veneration.
Wunderkammern vs. Cabinets of Curiosity
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his respect for the law bordered on veneration
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Exotic scent mingled with the more religious smells of incense, furniture polish and veneration.
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Finally, all the angels and canonized Saints receive what is called veneration, given in Latin as dulia.
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If any Lwa / Orisha were to be encouraging of unorthodox veneration, it might certainly well be Legba - the traveller, the boundary-walker, the strife-sower and line-crosser.
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In speaking of worship, theologians generally distinguish three kinds, namely: latria, or that supreme worship due to God alone, which cannot be transferred to any creature without committing the sin of idolatry; dulia, or that secondary veneration we give to saints and angels as the special friends of God; hyperdulia, or that higher veneration which we give to the Blessed Virgin as the most exalted of all God's creatures.
Baltimore Catechism No. 4 (of 4) An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine
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Robert Bruce had great veneration for Fillan, and on the eve of the battle of Bannockburn in 1314, having procured a relic of the saint to have with his army, he ".... past the remanent of the nicht in his prayaris with gud esperance of victorie.
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He was not a common madman who thought he was God and established a cult dedicated to the veneration of himself.
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Gandhi became an object of widespread veneration because of his unceasing struggle for freedom and equality.
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It is a service that I perform for her out of loyalty and love and veneration.
BEHINDLINGS
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Adoration and veneration may be the stuff of religious vision.
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We shall have," said the judge, "these crude and subversionary books from time to time until it is recognized as an axiom of morality that luck is the only fit object of human veneration.
Erewhon; or, Over the range
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The author is quite serious when he calls Eastern veneration of icons ‘iconolatry.’
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The accessaries of ancient distinction, to which the Baron, in the pride of his heart, had attached so much importance and veneration, were treated with peculiar contumely.
Waverley
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Not that he is usually a depreciator of his former leader, of whose military genius and great achievements he ever speaks with respect amounting to veneration.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
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Thus, a purely aesthetic veneration for the old and defeated culture coexists with an intimation of its still unquiet daemonic power.
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What impressed him most was my little collection of law books, especially Folkard's fat ‘Law of Libel,’ which he regarded with the awe and veneration of a bibliolater.
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Patriotism is a arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
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Anglo-Saxon veneration of the papacy was strong and contributed to the growth of papal authority in the West.
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Insult was added to injury in that the oppressor was no knight in shining armour, but a very churl of men; to the courteous and cultured Irishman a "bodach Sassenach," a man of low blood, of low cunning, caring only for the things of the body, with no veneration for the things of the spirit -- with, in fine, no music in his soul.
The Crime Against Europe A Possible Outcome of the War of 1914
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Phrenologically the Indian allows his alimentiveness to overbalance his group of organs which show veneration, benevolence, fondness for society, fêtes champêtres, etc., hope, love of study, fondness for agriculture, an unbridled passion for toil, etc.
Comic History of the United States
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The mortal remains of the founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers rest at Mount Sion and it remains the principal site for the veneration of his relics.
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“We shall have,” said the judge, “these crude and subversionary books from time to time until it is recognised as an axiom of morality that luck is the only fit object of human veneration.
Erewhon
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He looked longingly at my well-printed copy of Byron; but what impressed him most was my little collection of law books, especially Folkard's fat "Law of Libel," which he regarded with the awe and veneration of a bibliolater, suddenly confronting a gigantic mystery of erudition.
Prisoner for Blasphemy
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Likewise, the quick rush to canonize the great Pope John Paul II is another example of a beautiful human life declared not sufficiently inspiring unless it is coated in veneration and sainthood.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Royal Weddings and Human Idols
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The internal evidence derived from the peculiar character of each of the historical books is decisive of their genuineness, which is supported above all suspicion of alteration or addition by the scrupulous conscientiousness and veneration with which the Hebrews regarded their sacred writings.
Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities
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African culture - veneration of ancestors, belief in witchcraft, faith in the power of magic, called muti, and the ability of prophets or sangomas to harness that power.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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During the Late Period his veneration extended to deification and he became a local god at Memphis where he was glorified for his skills as a physician and a healer.
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That's now my ideal of teacherly advocacy: The object of veneration is not the lecturer but the work of art.
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She could remember, not the person, but all the recent memories of the old Squire, the veneration with which he was named, the masterdom which was attributed to him, the unequalled nobility of his position in regard to Dillsborough.
The American Senator
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Gandhi became an object of widespread veneration because of his unceasing struggle for freedom and equality.
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Drawing closer, you could see the clutter of centuries of Buddhist veneration: stupas, Buddha images and incense-blackened shrines.
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Yet what is the fury of fans if not the flip side of veneration?
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The extreme form of uncritical veneration of the past may be said to take the position that old things are good simply because they are _old_; new things are evil simply because they are _new_.
Human Traits and their Social Significance
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The emperor had begun to think polytheistic cult a veneration of evil spirits and therefore perhaps a danger to his realm.
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Art, literature and music have amplified this veneration for venery.
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He disdains the communal gushing and deifying, "the fetishistic veneration," while nurturing a private, though complicated, affection.
The uneasy namesake
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I acquired lasting respect for tradition and veneration for the past.
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We shall have," said the judge, "these crude and subversionary books from time to time until it is recognised as an axiom of morality that luck is the only fit object of human veneration.
Erewhon
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For example, both systems include visualization of multiarmed, multifaced figures, manipulation of subtle energies through energy-nodes (Skt. chakras), veneration of women, use of bone ornaments and musical instruments, imagery from cremation grounds and slaughterhouses, and transformation of unclean bodily products.
Making Sense of Tantra ��� 2 The Authenticity of the Tantras
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‘The names engraved in gold inside it’, he notes acerbically, ‘are supposed to inspire veneration and awe, not to motivate the young to examine the lives of the named individuals with curiosity and patience’.
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I refer to his claim that "les premiers conquérants de la mer furent induits en vénération du poulpe nageur (octopus) parce qu'ils crurent que quelque-uns de ces céphalopodes, les poulpes sacrés (argonauta) avaient, comme eux et avant eux, inventé la navigation" (_op.cit. _, p. 15).
The Evolution of the Dragon
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In the Republic of San Marino, there is a deep?rooted veneration of the Saint Marinus, the legendary founder of the Republic.
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Patriotism is a arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
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For I am well known as a frequenter of his rites, my worship of him is no new thing, my priesthood has received the smile of his favour, and ere now I have expressed my veneration for him both in prose and verse.
The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura
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They shared, according to Tacitus, a war orientated Teutonic lifestyle with a veneration for the portentous powers of sage women and a predilection for feasting and drinking to excess.
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At a later period, with the increased religious veneration for all kinds of life, agriculture apparently fell into some kind of disrepute as involving the sacrifice of insect life, and there was
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV)
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IVC seals depict animals, perhaps as the object of veneration, comparable to the zoomorphic aspects of some Hindu gods.
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After a final investigation the individual may be formally canonized as a saint (meaning he or she is deemed worthy of universal veneration).
COLLINS DICTIONARY OF SAINTS
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They, therefore, offer worship and not mere veneration to it.
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Just maybe we can confront our place with awe and admiration, respect and veneration.
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The inhabitants of these villages, but particularly the Indians, hold in veneration the zamang del Guayre, which the first conquerors found almost in the same state in which it now remains.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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Churchill was held in near veneration during his lifetime.
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Moll's misogamy provides a powerful alternative to the veneration of marriage and procreation that informs the epithalamic ending.
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This veneration especially takes the form of prayer for intercession with her Son, Jesus Christ.
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He was originally thought to be simply a veneration of the concept of air and wind, one of the four fundamental concepts believed to have composed the primordial universe in the Ogdoad cosmogeny.
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a sublimer manner than any other creature the goodness of God, deserves from us a higher recognition and deeper veneration than any other of the saints; and this peculiar cultus due to her because of her unique position in the Divine economy, is designated in theology hyperdulia, that is dulia in an eminent degree.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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Just maybe we can confront our place with awe and admiration, respect and veneration.
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That Simon himself was distinguished by special veneration of and love for the Virgin is shown by the antiphonies "Flos Carmeli" and "Ave Stella Matutina", which he wrote, and which have been adopted in the breviary of the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
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What he possesses in spades is a respect that borders on veneration.
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However he had been driven to consort with outlaws, and to live a kind of freebooter's life, his natural sweetness was unspoiled, and was reinforced by solemn veneration for the sanctity of the Lord's anointing, which he reverenced all the more because himself had received it.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII
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The traditional feelings of veneration which a loyal and obedient people feel for a line of monarchs, whose origin is lost in the mists of antiquity, are such that they have turned what is in effect an evergrowing struggle against the archaic principle of divine right into a contest with clan-leaders whom they assert are acting "unconstitutionally" whenever they choose to assert the undeniable principles of the Constitution.
The Fight for the Republic in China
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Minor, against prayers for the dead, veneration of relics, candles in the day-time, the merit of celibacy, the need of fasting, the observance of days, difference in future rewards, the defectibility of the regenerate, and the divine origin of episcopacy.
Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity
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Among Christians, the veneration of relics has traditionally been strongest among the Orthodox and Catholics, who, beginning in the second century, created ever more ornate reliquaries to display the sacred objects.
Would you pay to see John the Baptist's tooth?
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The request called upon Leo to enlighten his people by solemn definition concerning the pious belief that the Beatus Leibowitz was indeed a saint, worthy of the dulia of the Church as well as the veneration of the faithful.
A Canticle for Leibowitz
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Exotic scent mingled with the more religious smells of incense, furniture polish and veneration.
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You admired the Saxons and Danes in their veneration of the predictions of old women, whom the after ungallantry of
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843
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Because of centuries of standardization and veneration of literary usage, a classical language or a classicized variety of a language may split off from everyday use.
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Throughout recorded history, whether in this hemisphere or the next, pearls were objects of veneration.
PEARL COVE
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Ultimately, this new centralism strengthened the authority of the Church, while the revival of popular forms of religious practice (such as the veneration of saints) further increased its appeal.
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Gandhi became an object of widespread veneration because of his unceasing struggle for freedom and equality.
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During the fourteenth century, the shroud was often publicly exposed, though not continuously, since the bishop of Troyes, Henri de Poitiers, had prohibited veneration of the image.
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Columba, et affectus vel venerationis causa additur _mo_; et hinc
Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1
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After a final investigation the individual may be formally canonized as a saint (meaning he or she is deemed worthy of universal veneration).
COLLINS DICTIONARY OF SAINTS
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Patriotism is a arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
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I acquired lasting respect for tradition and veneration for the past.
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The sun was an object of veneration .
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India is rightly called the umbrageous land with great geographical and economic entity, ensconced in the swathe of cultural unity amidst diversity held together by the strong and invisible threads of veneration and love amongst the people.
India Unveiled « Illiteracy Articles « Articles « Literacy News
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Gandhi became an object of widespread veneration because of his unceasing struggle for freedom and equality.
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- What then would be the implications for the veneration of Christ, if indeed monolatry was being kicked around as an idea?
Larry Hurtado: How Did Jesus Become A God?
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His brain had been beautifully prepared for such veneration and false remembrance.
THE BROKEN GOD
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As long as they receive proper veneration and offerings, these deities guarantee fruitfulness and protection against the powers of evil and natural calamities.
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Honest Crowe thought himself scurvily used by a man whom he had cultivated with such humility and veneration; and, after an incoherent ejaculation of sea oaths, went in quest of his nephew, in order to make him acquainted with this unlucky transaction.
The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
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She was so devoted, she had such a quick perception of what it would be well to say, and what it would be well to leave unsaid; she was so forgetful of herself, and so regardful of the sorrow about her, that I held her in a sort of veneration.
David Copperfield
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Only in its veneration of the writer does it feel anachronistic.
Times, Sunday Times
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cella" containing the object of veneration, the lingam, surmounted by a high-pitched conical stone roof.
A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
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In 1102, the council of Westminster forbade the veneration of wells, along with ‘the bodies of the dead’, presumably a reference to unauthenticated relics, without episcopal licence.
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It was to be taken up again some centuries later by the Port-Royal grammarians in a far more adequate form, freed from the hampering medie - val veneration for authorities and from the sterile verbalism of the Schoolmen, and based on a far broader foundation of factual knowledge of languages.
STUDY OF LANGUAGE
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Late-modern culture could also be premodern, at least in its veneration of the written word.
The Times Literary Supplement
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We should not flatter ourselves that the enjoyment of the delights of bibliomania was reserved to one time and generation; a greater than any of us lived many centuries ago, and went his bibliomaniacal way, gathering together treasures from every quarter, and diffusing every where a veneration and love for books.
The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
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Let us add that faith does not reason: which does not mean, as so many misbelievers feign, that faith is fulfilled by blindness or ignorance of the objects of its veneration.