Meaning of Venerability | Babel Free

Definitions

The qualities of being venerable; great age, respectability, infirmity, etc.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Because of the professor's venerability his opinion was often asked, but his actual attendance in committee meetings was not insisted upon.”

“The far-flungness of the word, the phenomenological pleasure of finding it variously transformed by Ransom's modernity and Beowulf’s venerability made me feel vaguely something for which again I only found the words years later.”

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