as in to venerate
to offer honor or respect to (someone) as a divine power
in some cultures people revere their ancestors, even leaving food offerings for them
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Recent Examples of revere
The warm-up supercar was the Porsche 911 GT3 RS, which makes a piddling 518 hp but is revered as one of the best pound-for-pound driver’s cars in the world.
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Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 13 Mar. 2025
The sacred is transcendent: revered and dignified beyond everyday affairs.
—Michael Elliott, The Conversation, 12 Mar. 2025
In many circles, Gary Williams is revered as the national championship-winning coach of Maryland men’s basketball.
—Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 7 Mar. 2025
Peter, though revered as an apostle worthy of veneration, is also portrayed in the Gospels as prone to mistakes, often foolish, and sometimes outright contradictory to God’s will.
—Timothy Nerozzi, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Feb. 2025
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Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 13 Mar. 2025
The sacred is transcendent: revered and dignified beyond everyday affairs.
—Michael Elliott, The Conversation, 12 Mar. 2025
In many circles, Gary Williams is revered as the national championship-winning coach of Maryland men’s basketball.
—Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 7 Mar. 2025
Peter, though revered as an apostle worthy of veneration, is also portrayed in the Gospels as prone to mistakes, often foolish, and sometimes outright contradictory to God’s will.
—Timothy Nerozzi, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for revere
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Also, a subculture referred to as Saints Culture, which venerates mass killers as almost superhuman figures, frames high-casualty attacks as the ultimate and only legacy worth emulating.—
Odette Yousef,
NPR,
8 Mar. 2025
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Aquinas adds – and to me this is one of the most beautiful aspects of his reflections on relics – that venerating a relic is also a way of looking forward to the future resurrection of the body.—
Therese Cory,
The Conversation,
28 Jan. 2025
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The cluster of musicians were joined onstage by a soulful choir wearing black praise and worship robes.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
19 Mar. 2025
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For centuries, new technologies have changed the ways people worship, from the radio in the 1920s to television sets in the 1950s and the internet in the 1990s.—
The New York Times News Service Syndicate,
The Denver Post,
8 Mar. 2025
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Should reverence serve carelessness, even incoherence?—
Joy Williams,
Harper's Magazine,
2 May 2024
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Saint Heron remains dedicated to empowering future art practitioners by reverencing the spiritual act of creating and spotlighting artists’ unwavering devotion to the intergenerational language of expression.—
Dominique Fluker,
Essence,
16 June 2023
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“Revere.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/revere. Accessed 29 Mar. 2025.
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