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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



... Confucius. For, without any warning, as if it were a prank, And sneaking up behind me, Harry Wiley, The minister's son, caved my ribs into my lungs, With a blow of his fist. Now I shall never sleep with my ancestors in Pekin, And no children shall worship at my grave. ...
— Spoon River Anthology • Edgar Lee Masters
... white comforter. They thought the spotted shirt was the Great Manitou himself, the master of the alarming disease that swept them off in such vast numbers, and that the white comforter was the Manitou of the snow; that, if they could only secure and worship them, the small-pox would be banished, and abundant snows would drive the buffalo down from the mountains. The white man agreed to give them up, receiving in exchange several of their best horses; and for many years these two Manitous were carried in solemn procession to a hill ...
— Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California • Caroline C. Leighton
... wouldn't stand up. And that, with the blue eyes, is Soeur Hyacinthe. She walks with me— this is I—as she always did. And what do you think? With the fifteen dolls that you have brought I am going to have a real Pardon, and townspeople and fisher people to stand and worship at the altar of the Virgin, there in the corner. I made it of wax, and stamped the face with a seal that Charles gave me. He was to have been my husband when I left ...
— Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts • A. T. Quiller-Couch
... who have bargained with Satan, offering the price of their own souls. When the Tempter came to the Saviour in the wilderness, he offered Him the glory and splendour of the world if Jesus would fall down and worship him. It is the same with us. Satan offers us this world instead of the world to come. He offers us our own way, so dear to all of us. He offers us the pleasures of the body, "let us eat and drink." He offers us self-indulgence ...
— The Life of Duty, v. 2 - A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles • H. J. Wilmot-Buxton
... also {Hanlon's Razor}). The label 'Finagle's Law' was popularized by SF author Larry Niven in several stories depicting a frontier culture of asteroid miners; this 'Belter' culture professed a religion and/or running joke involving the worship of the dread god Finagle and his mad prophet Murphy. Some technical and scientific cultures (e.g., paleontologists) know it under the name 'Sod's Law'; this usage may be ...
— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0


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