regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of; " Fear God as your father"; " We venerate genius"

love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol; " Many teenagers idolized the Beatles"

American silversmith remembered for his midnight ride ( celebrated in a poem by Longfellow) to warn the colonists in Lexington and Concord that British troops were coming ( 1735- 1818)

a lapel on a woman's garment; turned back to show the reverse side

To regard with reverence, or profound respect and affection, mingled with awe or fear; to venerate; to reverence; to honor in estimation.

To regard with respect and affection mingled with awe.

To regard with respectful awe: to venerate.

To regard with respectful awe; venerate.

To adore; venerate.

To regard with veneration; to reverence.

To regard with fear mingled with respect and affection; to honour in estimation.

I revere Salvini, but I shall never see him- nor anybody- play again. – The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson Other: Andrew Lang

Revere was promptly recalled with his troops, and at once relieved of command. – The Campaign of Chancellorsville by Theodore A. Dodge

When he first arrived in Boston, after his speech, and spoke to the great crowd in front of the Revere House, he said, " I shall support no agitations having their foundations in unreal, ghostly abstractions." – Daniel Webster by Henry Cabot Lodge

The day after the doctor's visit I saw our great physician, whom now all the world has learned to revere, and who was ever more wise in matters of medicine than in matters of state. – Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker by S. Weir Mitchell

You, a Craig, who brought years of suffering upon the woman we revere. – Miss Caprice by St. George Rathborne

He lives with friends who revere and adore him. – Là-bas by J. K. Huysmans

Here, on the other side of the poetic ecstasy, we have the noble personality of Verhaeren, in whom we revere, not only a poetic force, but a human perfection as well. – Ã‰mile Verhaeren by Stefan Zweig

By the middle of the afternoon he knocked again at cousin Snow's door in Revere Street, and delivered an invitation. – The Life of Nancy by Sarah Orne Jewett

For, thought he, it is a wholesome doctrine- reverence for old age; and yet how little there is to revere! – Greene Ferne Farm by Richard Jefferies

What a revelation of personal insignificance it is to fail to revere the majesty of the devout and aspiring life! – Preaching and Paganism by Albert Parker Fitch

X Not vainly on us she charged her cause, The lady whom we revere For faith in the mask of a love untrue To the Love we honour, the Love her due, The Love we have vowed to rear. – The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith by George Meredith

Revere, Paul, in Penobscot expedition, 68. Rhode Island, island of, 407, et seq. – Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake

It was this inevitable heroism of his that, more than his literature even, made me wish to see him and revere him; and I do not believe that I should have found the veneration difficult, when at last I met him in his insufficient person, if he had otherwise been present to my glowing expectation. – Entire PG Edition of The Works of William Dean Howells by William Dean Howells

" Yes," said Revere, " I've no mind to run the fleet yonder under a full moon." – Cardigan by Robert W. Chambers

Upon the arrival of the President, the officers of the State government, to the number of about twenty, called at the Revere House, where we were received by J. Thomas Stevenson, a personal and political friend of Mr. Webster. – Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 by George Boutwell