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venerable
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venerable
1. RC Church a title bestowed on a deceased person when the first stage of his canonization has been accomplished and his holiness has been recognized in a decree of the official Church
2. Church of England a title given to an archdeacon


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Like Le Confessionnal, Le Polygraphe is about truth and its ambiguities, the epicenter, eye-of-the-truth storm having been changed now from the venerability of the confessional and the hushed intensities of its dialogues to the steely bureaucratic monitoring of the merely bio-mechanical, polygraph/lie detector--the results of which are, in the film, invariably "inconclusive.
The Traditional Small Craft Association, a nonprofit organization in Mystic, CT, represents owners and builders of many of the smaller traditional craft, working and pleasure, such as dories, peapods, catboats, sharpies and skiffs, calling them "not relics of the past or sterile objects of museum-quality venerability but vessels that were designed to be used.
However, the concept's very venerability has also generated arguments that criticism should move beyond it--or that literature already has.
 
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