Veneration

Webster's Dictionary

(n.) The act of venerating, or the state of being venerated; the highest degree of respect and reverence; respect mingled with awe; a feeling or sentimental excited by the dignity, wisdom, or superiority of a person, by sacredness of character, by consecration to sacred services, or by hallowed associations.

Charles Buck Theological Dictionary

An affection compounded of awe and love, and which of all others becomes creatures to bear toward their infinitely perfect Creator.

See DEVOTION.