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veneraˈbility
[ad. med.L. venerābilitās: see next and -ity. So It. venerabilità, Pg. -ilidade.]
1. The quality of being venerable.
1664H. More Antid. Idolatry viii. 93 The Images have according to the excellency and venerability of their Proto⁓types, some Latria [etc.]. 1805R. P. Knight Princ. Taste (ed. 2) ii. ii. 161 This air of venerability (which belongs to the sublime, and not to the beautiful). 1826Blackw. Mag. XIX. 388 [They] have lost the loveliness of youth, without having gained the venerability of age. a1849Poe Wks. (1864) III. 405 Far be it from us..to dwell irreverently on matters which have venerability. 1904Athenæum 24 Dec. 886/1 Its conventions are..as much a part of its venerability as the trappings of the Lord Mayor's Show.
2. Employed as a form of address to an ecclesiastic. rare—1.
1842Borrow Bible in Spain v, I lived in the family of the Countess **, at Cintra, when your venerability was her spiritual guide. |