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Worship   /wˈərʃəp/  /wˈərʃɪp/   Listen
noun
Worship  n.  
1.
Excellence of character; dignity; worth; worthiness. (Obs.) "A man of worship and honour." "Elfin, born of noble state, And muckle worship in his native land."
2.
Honor; respect; civil deference. (Obs.) "Of which great worth and worship may be won." "Then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee."
3.
Hence, a title of honor, used in addresses to certain magistrates and others of rank or station. "My father desires your worships' company."
4.
The act of paying divine honors to the Supreme Being; religious reverence and homage; adoration, or acts of reverence, paid to God, or a being viewed as God. "God with idols in their worship joined." "The worship of God is an eminent part of religion, and prayer is a chief part of religious worship."
5.
Obsequious or submissive respect; extravagant admiration; adoration. "'T is your inky brows, your black silk hair, Your bugle eyeballs, nor your cheek of cream, That can my spirits to your worship."
6.
An object of worship. "In attitude and aspect formed to be At once the artist's worship and despair."
Devil worship, Fire worship, Hero worship, etc. See under Devil, Fire, Hero, etc.


verb
Worship  v. t.  (past & past part. worshiped or worshipped; pres. part. worshiping or worshipping)  
1.
To respect; to honor; to treat with civil reverence. (Obsoles.) "Our grave... shall have a tongueless mouth, Not worshiped with a waxen epitaph." "This holy image that is man God worshipeth."
2.
To pay divine honors to; to reverence with supreme respect and veneration; to perform religious exercises in honor of; to adore; to venerate. "But God is to be worshiped." "When all our fathers worshiped stocks and stones."
3.
To honor with extravagant love and extreme submission, as a lover; to adore; to idolize. "With bended knees I daily worship her."
Synonyms: To adore; revere; reverence; bow to; honor.


Worship  v. i.  To perform acts of homage or adoration; esp., to perform religious service. "Our fathers worshiped in this mountain; and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship." "Was it for this I have loved... and worshiped in silence?"





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"Worship" Quotes from Famous Books



... order and make a good mother to his children. The other would not have kept the house in order at all, but it would have been a shrine. Cyrus worshipped that girl, and love may supplant love, but not worship. Ada does not know, and she never will through me, but I declare I was almost wicked enough to tell her when I saw her placidly darning away, without the slightest conception, any more than a feather pillow would have, of what this ridiculous affair with me might mean in future consequences ...
— The Whole Family - A Novel by Twelve Authors • William Dean Howells, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Mary Heaton Vorse, Mary Stewart Cutting, Elizabeth Jo
... thoughts were altogether turned upon the means of best promoting the {463} welfare of his people. He enacted most wholesome laws, which were held in high esteem in succeeding ages in this island: he abolished the worship of idols throughout his kingdom, and shut up their temples, or turned them into churches. His royal palace at Canterbury he gave for the use of the archbishop St. Austin: he founded in that city the cathedral called Christ Church, and built without the walls the abbey and ...
— The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints - January, February, March • Alban Butler
... reveal'd, Ev'n from her sister's friendship she conceal'd. But more—a temple in the palace stood With snow-white fleeces hang, with garlands strew'd, 570 Where to her former husband's honor'd shade Assiduous worship, daily vows she paid: There, when the night, unroll'd her sable pall She hears his voice in doleful murmurs call, While from the roof the fated owl alone 575 In deep complaint prolongs the funeral tone. ...
— The Fourth Book of Virgil's Aeneid and the Ninth Book of Voltaire's Henriad • Virgil and Voltaire
... prosy thing of four U's,' said Geraldine. 'You are sitting up there, you great fair creature, you, for the poor child to worship and adore, ...
— The Pillars of the House, V1 • Charlotte M. Yonge
... to a word from a stout lover, even if the diamonds and pearls of the fairy tale dropped from his lips whenever he spoke. That is the sole reason for my want of success with the fair sex, and I long ago deserted the shrine of Venus for the worship of Bacchus. A big paunch is not amiss among the devotees of that merry god, for it ...
— Captain Fracasse • Theophile Gautier


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