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venerate [Show phonetics]
verb [T] FORMAL
to honour or greatly respect a person or thing:
Robert Burns is Scotland's most venerated poet.

veneration [Show phonetics]
noun [U]
Gandhi became an object of widespread veneration because of his unceasing struggle for freedom and equality.

(from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)

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