Another object of veneration was the sacred miracle tree, which within itself contained the seeds of all. From LearnThat.org. [M. L. Gothein.]
Jerusalem, and was had in veneration by the people. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)] Reference
Surrounding the Prophet with veneration is one thing. From Wordnik.com. [Deepak Chopra: Making Muhammad Safe] Reference
The question of Marian veneration is a non-issue, a distraction. From Wordnik.com. [A Response to Mir] Reference
I'm not Catholic anymore, but I believe the distancing from relic veneration is unfortunate. From Wordnik.com. [Shroud of Turin is real enough] Reference
OLDING an important place among the majority of curious tales held in veneration by the coast tribes are those of the sea-serpent. From Wordnik.com. [Legends of Vancouver] Reference
If there is such a thing among Protestants as "religious veneration" of Luther, what shall we call the veneration of Mary among Catholics?. From Wordnik.com. [Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation] Reference
They were persons to whom they owed peculiar respect, and whom they should have in veneration. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)] Reference
Thus their idols should be polluted, and those places profaned by the dead bodies which they had had in veneration. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference
With a curious kind of veneration they believed that the. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
She felt more than simple admiration for Miss Euston; she experienced a kind of veneration for her. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story] Reference
Druid Priests had some kind of veneration for the Oak, and for the mistletoe — the same plant that we hang up in houses at Christmas. From Wordnik.com. [A Child's History of England] Reference
For the law itself he had the profound veneration which is expressed by Blackstone. From Wordnik.com. [The English Utilitarians, Volume I.] Reference
The same kind of veneration sprouted for Hank Williams, who was only 29 when he died in. From Wordnik.com. [Local News from Tuscaloosa News] Reference
But the circumstance which mostly encourages the arts in England is the great veneration which is paid them. From Wordnik.com. [The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I] Reference
The only feeling which approaches to it is the veneration which is felt in some of the provinces for the elder Napoleon. From Wordnik.com. [Paris: With Pen and Pencil Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business] Reference
In fact, Mulan's father prays to them., but a bigger question is whether the Chinese "veneration" of ancestors goes this far. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Superior to him in thought and energy, he regarded her with a kind of veneration, and was weak as a child at the thought of losing her. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Sally: or, The Cross the Way of Freedom. A Narrative of the Slave-life and Purchase of the Mother of Rev. Isaac Williams, of Detroit, Michigan] Reference
A certain veneration proper thereto, besides the veneration which is given to His Godhead. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition] Reference
"veneration" for the forms bequeathed us by Madison and his friends is any less problematic. From Wordnik.com. [Lean Left] Reference
A kind of veneration; when one, drooping and weary, alighted on some roof, a crowd would collect and watch it anxiously. From Wordnik.com. [France in the Nineteenth Century] Reference
Some professed veneration for the real-estate mogul. From Wordnik.com. [MAIL CALL & CORRECTION] Reference
A thousand times, No! Candor and honesty first; veneration for the fathers after. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
Messrs. Souart and Perrot, who authorized her to expose it for public veneration. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference
To many Christians, especially Roman Catholics, relics are sacred objects of veneration. From Wordnik.com. [4 Sale: Bones of the Saints] Reference
I have always felt the greatest veneration for her, and request you send me one of her relics. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference
Wiley uses the concept of altar (a high place of veneration) as a vehicle for intersections in art and history. From Wordnik.com. [MoAD: Museum of the African Diaspora In San Francisco] Reference
Asian students may display deference, but withhold veneration, until they have studied with a teacher for years. From Wordnik.com. [Russ Wellen: The Worst of Both Worlds: How the 'Shimano Problem' Underscores the Clash of Cultures Within Western Buddhism] Reference
We need to bear in mind that Koizumi is Japanese -- a patriot -- and in Japan, veneration for the dead runs deep. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call] Reference
They worshipped him ... viz., with an inferior, yet religious veneration, not for any temporal, but spiritual excellency. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 12: 4 Kings The Challoner Revision] Reference
And he pointed with a sort of passionate veneration to an elm where Vivian was shut up, and whence she would shortly emerge. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
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