Definition of "venerator" [ven•er•a•tor]

• One who venerates. (noun)

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• "Luther remained all his life a fervent venerator of Mary, whom he confessed with the ancient Creeds and Councils of the undivided Church of the first millennium as virgin and Mother of God."
• "Then, in 1265, Saint Louis—a great collector and venerator of relics—ordered that they be exhumed and, two years later, that they be exhibited at a great ceremony, which he attended."
• "He is a great venerator of all thinking minds and himself a metaphysician; an impartial judge of all works of taste; frank and openhearted in intercourse, more modest in his speech than in his writings, unaffected by praise…."