Veneration

Pronunciation

Full definition of veneration

Noun

1. The act of venerating or the state of being venerated.
2. (reverence)Profound reverence, respect or awe.
• 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Bradbury and Evans, page 2:In Miss Jemima's eyes an autograph letter of her sister, Miss Pinkerton, was an object of as deep venerationas would have been a letter from a sovereign.
3. Religious zeal, idolatry or devotion.

Anagrams

• enervation, Evertonian