[a. L. venerātor, agent-noun f. venerārī to venerate. Cf. It. veneratore, Sp. and Pg. venerador, F. vénérateur (rare).] One who venerates; a reverencer of something.
1656. Artif. Handsom., 123. The report seems fitted to the pulse and bent of those times, which were high venerators of vowed virginity.
a. 1676. Hale, Prim. Orig. Man., 74. Those great Priests and Venerators of Nature and its appearances.
1789. Burney, Hist. Mus. (ed. 2), II. i. 29. This prelate, who was a great venerator of ancient rites.
1818. Bentham, Parl. Reform, 75. So many indifferent and incurious observers, if not prostrate venerators.
1847. Tennyson, Princ., IV. 403. Not a scorner of your sex But venerator.
