worship
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See also: Worship
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Etymology[edit]
From Middle English worschippe, worthschipe, from Old English weorþscipe, corresponding to worth (“worthy, honorable”) + -ship. Cognate with Scots worschip (“worship”).
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Noun[edit]
worship (usually uncountable, plural worships)
- (obsolete) The condition of being worthy; honour, distinction.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter xxiij, in Le Morte Darthur, book I:
- I will be on horsbak said the knyght / thenne was Arthur wrothe and dressid his sheld toward hym with his swerd drawen / whan the knyght sawe that / he a lyghte / for hym thought no worship to haue a knyght at suche auaille he to be on horsbak and he on foot and so he alyght & dressid his sheld vnto Arthur
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.3:
- Then he forth on his journey did proceede, / To seeke adventures which mote him befall, / And win him worship through his warlike deed […].
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter xxiij, in Le Morte Darthur, book I:
- The devotion accorded to a deity or to a sacred object.
- The religious ceremonies that express this devotion.
- John Tillotson (1630-1694)
- The worship of God is an eminent part of religion, and prayer is a chief part of religious worship.
- John Tillotson (1630-1694)
- (by extension) The ardent love of a something.
- An object of worship.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
- In attitude and aspect formed to be / At once the artist's worship and despair.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
- Honour; respect; civil deference.
- Edmund Spenser (c.1552–1599)
- of which great worth and worship may be won
- Bible, Luke xiv. 10
- Then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee.
- Edmund Spenser (c.1552–1599)
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Terms derived from worship
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Translations[edit]
devotion accorded to a deity or to a sacred object
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the religious ceremonies that express this devotion
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the ardent love of a person
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Verb[edit]
worship (third-person singular simple present worships, present participle (UK) worshipping or (US) worshiping, simple past and past participle (UK) worshipped or (US) worshiped)
- (transitive) To reverence (a deity, etc.) with supreme respect and veneration; to perform religious exercises in honour of.
- Shakespeare
- God is to be worshipped.
- Milton
- When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones.
- Shakespeare
- (transitive) To honour with extravagant love and extreme submission, as a lover; to adore; to idolize.
- Carew
- With bended knees I daily worship her.
- Carew
- (intransitive) To participate in religious ceremonies.
- We worship at the church down the road.
Translations[edit]
to honor and adore, especially as a deity
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to participate in religious ceremonies
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