veneration
pronunciation
How to pronounce veneration in British English:
UK [ˌvenə'reɪʃn]
How to pronounce veneration in American English:
US [ˌvɛnəˈreʃən]
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- Noun:
- a profound emotion inspired by a deity
- religious zeal; willingness to serve God
Word Origin
- veneration (n.)
- early 15c., from Old French veneracion, from Latin venerationem (nominative veneratio) "reverence, profoundest respect," noun of action from past participle stem of venerari "to worship, revere," from venus (genitive veneris) "beauty, love, desire" (see Venus).
Example
- 1. Homer 's gods , xenophanes complained , had all the immoral and disgraceful traits of flawed human beings and should hardly be the object of veneration .
- 2. Japan 's veneration for order has been fully transplanted to this tvs factory in the city of hosur .
- 3. But , in the us , a generalised attachment to liberty has somehow turned into an unquestioning veneration of the constitution that has become almost quasi-religious .
- 4. Although rooted in shinto , the native spiritual system in japan involving nature and ancestor veneration , the kanda festival is also an occasion for japanese to show the pride they feel in their own history .
- 5. Secular historians would link the veneration of mary to the pre-christian cult of female divinities , such as the egyptians ' isis-who was conceived by her followers as a madonna figure nursing a holy child-or the romans ' diana .