misworship

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ worship

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪsˈwɜː(ɹ)ʃɪp/

Verb

misworship (third-person singular simple present misworships, present participle misworshipping or (US) misworshiping, simple past and past participle misworshipped or (US) misworshiped)

1. (transitive) To worship (a deity, etc.) wrongly.
   • 1612–1626, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volumes (please specify |volume=II, V, or VI), London, →OCLC:

     The Israelites misworshipped the true God; the Syrians worshipped a false.

Noun

misworship (countable and uncountable, plural misworships)

1. False or wrong worship; mistaken practices in religion.
   • 1612–1626, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volumes (please specify |volume=II, V, or VI), London, →OCLC:

     Might men be their own judges, there would be no heresy in the world, no misworship.

   • 1840 May 5, Thomas Carlyle, “Lecture I. The Hero as Divinity. Odin. Paganism: Scandinavian Mythology.”, in On Heroes, Hero-Worship and The Heroic in History, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1840, →OCLC, page 4:

     Such hideous inextricable jungle of misworships, misbeliefs, men, made as we are, did actually hold by, and live at home in.