Definition of "venerated" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of venerate. (verb)

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• "Part of the reason that relics are so venerated is because of the belief in resurrection of the body -- a redemption of the physical world at the end of time."
• "Heinlein venerated the armed forces, most notoriously in his 1959 novel Starship Troopers, which celebrated an elite military order."
• "Thomas Simpson (a name venerated by every geometer) was one of the scientific men consulted by the committee appointed to decide upon the plans for Blackfriars Bridge, in 1759 and 1760."