venerability
nounEtymology From venerable + -ity, from Latin venerabilitas.
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The qualities of being venerable; great age, respectability, infirmity, etc.
- Because of the professor's venerability his opinion was often asked, but his actual attendance in committee meetings was not insisted upon.
- The far-flungness of the word, the phenomenological pleasure of finding it variously transformed by Ransom's modernity and Beowulf’s venerability made me feel vaguely something for which again I only found the words years later.1999, Seamus Heaney, “Introduction”, in Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page xxv: