worship
See also: Worship
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- wurship (obsolete)
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English worschippe, worthschipe, from Old English weorþsċipe. Synchronically analyzable as worth (“worthy, honorable”) + -ship. Cognate with Scots worschip (“worship”).
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈwɜːʃɪp/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈwɝʃɪp/
Audio (GA) (file) - Homophone: warship (General American, rare)
- Hyphenation: wor‧ship
NounEdit
worship (usually uncountable, plural worships)
- The devotion accorded to a deity or to a sacred object.
- Polytheistic theology and worship had to go underground.
- (Christianity, specifically) The adoration owed to God alone, as greater than the veneration that may be accorded to figures such as saints.
- The religious ceremonies that express this devotion.
- 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious:
- The worship of God is an eminent part of religion, and prayer is a chief part of religious worship.
- (by extension) Voluntary, utter submission; voluntary, utter deference.
- (also by extension) Ardent love.
- An object of worship.
- 1882 or later, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Michel Angelo
- In attitude and aspect formed to be / At once the artist's worship and despair.
- 1882 or later, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Michel Angelo
- Honour; respect; civil deference.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, stanza 8:
- of which great worth and worship may be won
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Luke 14:10:
- Then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee.
- (chiefly Britain) Used as a title or term of address for various officials, including magistrates
- 1837 March, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], “Relates How Oliver Twist Was Very Near Getting a Place, Which Would Not Have Been a Sinecure”, in Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], published 1838, OCLC 558204586, page 48:
- “I beg your worship’s pardon,” said Mr. Bumble, incredulous of his having heard aright,—“did your worship speak to me?”
- 2010, Val McDermid, A Place of Execution:
- 'Your Worships, I have a submission to put before the court. As Your Worships are aware, it is the duty of the court under Section thirty-nine of the Children and Young Persons Act to protect the identity of minors who are victims of offences […]
- (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
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- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
- Then he forth on his journey did proceede, / To seeke adventures which mote him befall, / And win him worship through his warlike deed […].
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
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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VerbEdit
worship (third-person singular simple present worships, present participle (Commonwealth) worshipping or (US) worshiping, simple past and past participle (Commonwealth) worshipped or (US) worshiped or (obsolete) worshipt)
- (transitive) To reverence (a deity, etc.) with supreme respect and veneration; to perform religious exercises in honour of.
- 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene i]:
- God is to be worshipped.
- 1655, John Milton, Sonnet 18
- When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones.
- (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.'
- a. 1639, Thomas Carew, A Cruell Mistris
- With bended knees I daily worship her.
- (intransitive) To participate in religious ceremonies.
- We worship at the church down the road.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
to honor and adore, especially as a deity
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to adore
to participate in religious ceremonies
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ReferencesEdit
- worship at OneLook Dictionary Search