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Venerability

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

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

countable, uncountable

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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.”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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