Worship
['wɝʃɪp]
Definition
(noun.) the activity of worshipping.
(noun.) a feeling of profound love and admiration.
(verb.) show devotion to (a deity); 'Many Hindus worship Shiva'.
(verb.) attend religious services; 'They worship in the traditional manner'.
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Definition
(a.) Excellence of character; dignity; worth; worthiness.
(a.) Honor; respect; civil deference.
(a.) Hence, a title of honor, used in addresses to certain magistrates and others of rank or station.
(a.) 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.
(a.) Obsequious or submissive respect; extravagant admiration; adoration.
(a.) An object of worship.
(v. t.) To respect; to honor; to treat with civil reverence.
(v. t.) To pay divine honors to; to reverence with supreme respect and veneration; to perform religious exercises in honor of; to adore; to venerate.
(v. t.) To honor with extravagant love and extreme submission, as a lover; to adore; to idolize.
(v. i.) To perform acts of homage or adoration; esp., to perform religious service.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Adoration, homage, reverence.
v. a. [1]. Adore, venerate (with religious rites), revere, reverence.[2]. Idolize, deify.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Adore, reverence, revere, deify, idolize, honor, exalt
ANT:Abominate, loathe, contemn
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Definition
n. religious service: fervent esteem: adoration paid to God: a title of honour in addressing certain magistrates &c.: submissive respect.—v.t. to respect highly: to treat with civil reverence: to pay divine honours to: to adore or idolise.—v.i. to perform acts of adoration: to perform religious service:—pr.p. wor′shipping; pa.t. and pa.p. wor′shipped.—adjs. Wor′shipable Wor′shipful worthy of worship or honour used as a term of respect.—adv. Wor′shipfully.—n. Wor′shipfulness.—adj. Wor′shipless destitute of worship or worshippers.—n. Wor′shipper.—House or Place of worship a church or chapel.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. Homo Creator's testimony to the sound construction and fine finish of Deus Creatus. A popular form of abjection having an element of pride.
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Examples
- I worship you! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Where he can, your worship,' replied the officer; again pretending to receive Oliver's answer. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Part of the evening church service was the form of worship observed in Mr. Helstone's household. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- His worship knew this perfectly well; but it was a good annoyance, and a safe one. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Their religion is a worship of God in Trinity, that is of Wisdom, Love and Power, but without any distinction of persons. Plato. The Republic.
- A land of money-worship, a land of noisy steam-engines, a land of poverty and wealth—extremes in both cases. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The primary duty of this priesthood was concerned with the worship of and the sacrifices to the god of the temple. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- No; he was quite sure that she was an ideal woman, so therefore worshipped her—unseen, unheard—with all the chivalrous affection of a medi?val knight. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He worshipped her as age worships youth, he gloried in her, because, in his one grain of faith, he was young as she, he was her proper mate. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I would have knelt down and worshipped the same. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- She had mastered this rude coarse nature; and he loved and worshipped her with all his faculties of regard and admiration. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Did she own to herself how different the real man was from that superb young hero whom she had worshipped? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- They only worshipped a beautiful hope for a life of love and peace and happiness in the hereafter. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Let him seek here the mighty brawn, the muscle, the abounding blood, the full-fed flesh he worshipped: let all materialists draw nigh and look on. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He worshipped her as age worships youth, he gloried in her, because, in his one grain of faith, he was young as she, he was her proper mate. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- There was no effective prohibition of superstitious practices, spirit raising, incantations, prostrations, and supplementary worships. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is he who sees and worships your merit the strongest, who loves you most devotedly, that has the best right to a return. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- See here, sir, at present I am worshipping a creature of my own creation, with the face of that picture, but with the attributes of fancy. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Then to hear them fall into ecstasies with each other's creations--worshipping the heroine of such a poem, novel, drama--thinking it fine, divine! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children; and here was one who was worshipping a stone! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- This was what a man got by worshipping the sight of a woman! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The ape-man knew no god, but he was as near to worshipping his divinity as mortal man ever comes to worship. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- And worshipping you downright. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It was too intolerable that Dorothea should be worshipping this husband: such weakness in a woman is pleasant to no man but the husband in question. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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