Bloviate all you want, parse your priestly PT Barnum pabulum all you want, but the basic fact still remains, venerate = worship.
How rich ----- *****YOU***** are the one who ran to a thesaurus for help (and even called me out on my error) -- and then went back to it for reference.
And you accuse ME of bloviating and parsing? LOL!
You, honestly, just outed yourself...