Synonyms

1. august
2. revered

Sentence Examples

1. He had started to suspect that his venerable father and his other teachers, that the wise Brahmans had already revealed to him the most and best of their wisdom, that they had already filled his expecting vessel with their richness, and the vessel was not full, the spirit was not content, the soul was not calm, the heart was not satisfied.
2. You will not be able to convey and say to anybody, oh venerable one, in words and through teachings what has happened to you in the hour of enlightenment!
3. I should like to go farther, and give reasons to show that it is advisable to choose those who are to hold so necessary an office in the state, but this is not the fit place for it some day I will expound the matter to someone able to see to and rectify it all I say now is, that the additional fact of his being a sorcerer has removed the sorrow it gave me to see these white hairs and this venerable countenance in so painful a position on account of his being a pimp though I know well there are no sorceries in the world that can move or compel the will as some simple folk fancy, for our will is free, nor is there herb or charm that can force it.
4. It was drawn by four plodding oxen all covered with black housings on each horn they had fixed a large lighted wax taper, and on the top of the cart was constructed a raised seat, on which sat a venerable old man with a beard whiter than the very snow, and so long that it fell below his waist he was dressed in a long robe of black buckram for as the cart was thickly set with a multitude of candles it was easy to make out everything that was on it.
5. Wendy also said that he gave the impression of a venerable African chieftain who truly wanted the best for his people and was very accessible.
6. Next there presented itself to my sight a stately royal palace or castle, with walls that seemed built of clear transparent crystal and through two great doors that opened wide therein, I saw coming forth and advancing towards me a venerable old man, clad in a long gown of mulberry-coloured serge that trailed upon the ground.
7. Siddhartha knew many venerable Brahmans, chiefly his father, the pure one, the scholar, the most venerable one.
8. At their head were a venerable old man and an ancient dame, more brisk and active, however, than might have been expected from their years.
9. I then descended to the courts of justice, over which the judges, those venerable sages and interpreters of the law, presided, for determining the disputed rights and properties of men, as well as for the punishment of vice and protection of innocence.