| a regard for what is politic or advantageous rather than for what is right or just; a sense of self-interest. |
| to break away from or rise against an authority; open rebellion; cast off allegiance or subjection to those in authority |
venerable
title or respectful form of address, used from very early times in Europe, especially for certain clergy or for laymen of marked spiritual merit. St. Augustine in some epistles cited the term in reference to bishops, and Philip I of France was styled venerabilis and venerandus ("reverential"). The venerable by which Saint Bede is commonly known ("the Venerable Bede," or "Bede the Venerable") survives from a contemporary practice of so addressing bishops and abbots and, posthumously, worthy clerics such as Bede.
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