worship
See also: Worship
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English worschippe, worthschipe, from Old English weorþsċipe; synchronically analyzable as worth (“worthy, honorable”) + -ship. Cognate with Scots worschip (“worship”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈwɜː.ʃɪp/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈwɝ.ʃɪp/
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: wor‧ship
Noun
worship (usually uncountable, plural worships)
- (obsolete) The condition of being worthy; honour, distinction.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “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 […].
- The devotion accorded to a deity or to a sacred object.
- The religious ceremonies that express this devotion.
- (Can we date this quote by John Tillotson and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- The worship of God is an eminent part of religion, and prayer is a chief part of religious worship.
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- (by extension) Voluntary, utter submission; voluntary, utter deference.
- (also by extension) Ardent love.
- An object of worship.
- (Can we date this quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- In attitude and aspect formed to be / At once the artist's worship and despair.
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- Honour; respect; civil deference.
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Translations
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
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.
- (transitive) To honour with extravagant love and extreme submission, as a lover; to adore; to idolize.
- 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 8, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 251:
- 'All the household worshipped her.'
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- With bended knees I daily worship her.
- (intransitive) To participate in religious ceremonies.
- We worship at the church down the road.
Translations
to honor and adore, especially as a deity
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to participate in religious ceremonies
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