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REVERE, REVERENCE, VENERATE, WORSHIP, ADORE mean to honor and admire profoundly and respectfully.

REVERE stresses deference and tenderness of feeling.

e.g. 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.

e.g. reverenced the academy's code of honor

VENERATE implies a holding as holy or sacrosanct because of character, association, or age.

e.g. heroes still venerated

WORSHIP implies homage usually expressed in words or ceremony.

e.g. worships their memory

ADORE implies love and stresses the notion of an individual and personal attachment.

e.g. we adored our doctor

verb with object

feel deep respect or admiration for (something):

｟かたく｠ …を深く尊敬する, あがめる (!しばしば受け身で)

e.g. Cézanne's still lifes were revered by his contemporaries.

mid 17th century: from French révérer or Latin revereri, from re- (expressing intensive force) + vereri ‘to fear’.