To treat with great respect and deference.
To revere or hold in awe.
[…] we cannot but venerate in Johnson one of the most exercised minds that our holy religion hath ever formed.
First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin venerātus, perfect active participle of veneror (“to worship, venerate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
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