disworship
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English disworship, disworshipe, dysworschip, equivalent to dis- + worship (noun).
Noun edit
disworship (uncountable)
- (obsolete) A deprivation of honour or cause of disgrace.
- 1645, John Milton, Colasterion:
- Observ now the arrogance of a groom, how it will mount. I had writt'n, that common adultery is a thing which the rankest Politician would think it shame and disworship that his Law should countenance.
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle English disworschipen, equivalent to dis- + worship (verb).
Verb edit
disworship (third-person singular simple present disworships, present participle disworshipping or (US) disworshiping, simple past and past participle disworshipped or (US) disworshiped)
- To refuse to worship; to treat as unworthy of worship.
- 1684, Obadiah Walker, A Paraphrase and Annotations Upon All the Epistles of St Paul:
- disworshipping and dishonouring God
References edit
- “disworship”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.