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Veneration vs Honour - What's the difference?

veneration | honour |

As a noun veneration

is veneration.

As a proper noun honour is

, a less common spelling of honor.

veneration

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of venerating or the state of being venerated.
  • (senseid)Profound reverence, respect or awe.
  • * 1848 , , Vanity Fair , Bradbury and Evans, page 2:
    • In Miss Jemima's eyes an autograph letter of her sister, Miss Pinkerton, was an object of as deep veneration as would have been a letter from a sovereign.
  • Religious zeal, idolatry or devotion.

    • Anagrams

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    honour

    English

    Noun

  • * 1902 , Richard Francis Weymouth, Translation of the New Testament of the Bible , Book 60, 1 Peter 2:4:
    • Come to Him, the ever-living Stone, rejected indeed by men as worthless, but in God's esteem chosen and held in honour .
  • * (rfdate), Shakespeare:
    • If she have forgot / Honour and virtue.
  • * (rfdate), Milton:
    • Godlike erect, with native honour clad.

    Verb

    (en verb)