revere stresses deference and tenderness of feeling.
a professor revered by her students
reverence presupposes an intrinsic merit and inviolability in the one honored and a similar depth of feeling in the one honoring.
reverenced the academy's code of honor
venerate implies a holding as holy or sacrosanct because of character, association, or age.
heroes still venerated
worship implies homage usually expressed in words or ceremony.
worships their memory
adore implies love and stresses the notion of an individual and personal attachment.
we adored our doctor
Example Sentences
He's a good doctor. All his patients adore him. They adored shopping in all the boutiques.
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Word History
Etymology
Middle English aouren, adouren, borrowed from Anglo-French aurer, ahourer, adourer (with d restored from Latin), going back to Latin adōrāre "to plead with, appeal to, approach (a god) as a suppliant or worshipper, treat with reverence, admire," from ad-ad- + ōrāre "to pray to, beseech" — more at oration