venerable

adjective5

1. •
   Commanding respect because of age, dignity, character or position.
2. •
   Worthy of reverence.

   • We looked at the venerable stream not in the vivid flush of a short day that comes and departs for ever, but in the pacific yet august light of abiding memories. — 1899
3. •
   Made sacred especially by religious or historical association.
4. •
   Ancient, antiquated or archaic.
5. •
   Giving an impression of aged goodness and benevolence.

adjective3

1. •
   The description in the Roman Catholic Church of someone in the first stages of canonisation.
2. •
   A form of address for an archdeacon in the Anglican Church.
3. •
   The description of some saints in the Eastern Orthodox Church.

noun1

1. •
   A title indicating respect, prefixed to the names of Buddhist monks and nuns.