synonyms REVERE, REVERENCE, VENERATE, WORSHIP, ADORE mean to honor and admire profoundly and respectfully.
REVERE stresses deference and tenderness of feeling *a professor revered by her students*.
REVERENCE presupposes an intrinsic merit and inviolability in the one honored and a similar depth of feeling in the one honoring *reverenced the academy's code of honor*.
VENERATE implies a holding as holy or sacrosanct because of character, association, or age *heroes still venerated*.
WORSHIP implies homage usually expressed in words or ceremony *worships their memory*.
ADORE implies love and stresses the notion of an individual and personal attachment *we adored our doctor*.
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