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/wˈərʃəp/ /wˈərʃɪp/ Listen

Worship

noun

The activity of worshipping.

A feeling of profound love and admiration. Synonym: adoration.

verb

(past & past part. worshiped or worshipped; pres. part. worshiping or worshipping)

Love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol. Synonyms: hero-worship, idolise, idolize, revere.

Show devotion to (a deity).

Attend religious services.

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"Worship" Quotes from Famous Books

... every door while the press-gang entered and searched each hole and corner of the dwelling; when we hear of churches being surrounded during divine service by troops, while the press-gang stood ready at the door to seize men as they came out from attending public worship, and take these instances as merely types of what was constantly going on in different forms, we do not wonder at Lord Mayors, and other civic authorities in large towns, complaining that a stop was put to business by the danger which the tradesmen and their servants incurred ...

— Sylvia's Lovers, Vol. I • Elizabeth Gaskell

... he learned the tongue of the tawny Dakotas; And the heart of the good father yearned to lead them away from their idols— Their giants[16] and dread Thunder-birds— their worship of stones[73] and the devil. "Wakan-de!"[M] they answered his words, for he read from his book in the Latin, Lest the Nazarene's holy commands by his tongue should be marred in translation; And oft with his beads in his hands, or the cross and the crucified Jesus, He knelt by himself ...

— The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems • H. L. Gordon

... medicines. Then placing one stick on the ground before me, they said, "This one is a head which, being affected by dreams of a deceased relative, requires relief"; the second symbolised the king's desire for the accomplishment of a phenomenon to which the old phalic worship was devoted; "and this third one," they said, "is a sign that the king wants a charm to keep all his subjects in awe of him." I then promised I would do what I could when I reached the palace, but feared to do anything in the distance. ...

— The Discovery of the Source of the Nile • John Hanning Speke

... this place some Christian boys who came from families where they had been accustomed to family worship, and who now that they were far away from it, looked back with longing to the days when it had been a part of every day. Things look different over there with the sound of battle close at hand, and customs that had been, a part of ...

— The War Romance of the Salvation Army • Evangeline Booth and Grace Livingston Hill

... mythology, and in the Oriental literature is treated as a sacred animal. "The clouds are cows and the rain milk." I remember what Herodotus says of the Egyptians' worship of heifers and steers; and in the traditions of the Celtic nations the cow is regarded as a divinity. In Norse mythology the milk of the cow Andhumbla afforded nourishment to the Frost giants, and it ...

— Birds and Poets • John Burroughs

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