worships

[Wor·ship]

To worship is to show a lot of love and adoration for something. Religious believers worship gods, and people can worship other people and things too.

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Excellence of character; dignity; worth; worthiness.

Noun
the activity of worshipping

Noun
a feeling of profound love and admiration

Verb
love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol; "Many teenagers idolized the Beatles"

Verb
show devotion to (a deity); "Many Hindus worship Shiva"

Verb
attend religious services; "They worship in the traditional manner"

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a.
Excellence of character; dignity; worth; worthiness.

a.
Honor; respect; civil deference.

a.
Hence, a title of honor, used in addresses to certain magistrates and others of rank or station.

a.
The act of paying divine honors to the Supreme Being; religious reverence and homage; adoration, or acts of reverence, paid to God, or a being viewed as God.

a.
Obsequious or submissive respect; extravagant admiration; adoration.

a.
An object of worship.

v. t.
To respect; to honor; to treat with civil reverence.

v. t.
To pay divine honors to; to reverence with supreme respect and veneration; to perform religious exercises in honor of; to adore; to venerate.

v. t.
To honor with extravagant love and extreme submission, as a lover; to adore; to idolize.

v. i.
To perform acts of homage or adoration; esp., to perform religious service.


Worship

Wor"ship , n. [OE. worshipe, wur&edh;scipe, AS. weor&edh;scipe; weor&edh; worth + -scipe -ship. See Worth, a., and -ship.] 1. Excellence of character; dignity; worth; worthiness. [Obs.] Shak.
A man of worship and honour.
Elfin, born of noble state, And muckle worship in his native land.
2. Honor; respect; civil deference. [Obs.]
Of which great worth and worship may be won.
Then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee.
3. Hence, a title of honor, used in addresses to certain magistrates and others of rank or station.
My father desires your worships' company.
4. The act of paying divine honors to the Supreme Being; religious reverence and homage; adoration, or acts of reverence, paid to God, or a being viewed as God. "God with idols in their worship joined." Milton.
The worship of God is an eminent part of religion, and prayer is a chief part of religious worship.
5. Obsequious or submissive respect; extravagant admiration; adoration.
'T is your inky brows, your black silk hair, Your bugle eyeballs, nor your cheek of cream, That can my spirits to your worship.
6. An object of worship.
In attitude and aspect formed to be At once the artist's worship and despair.
Devil worship, Fire worship, Hero worship, etc. See under Devil, Fire, Hero, etc.

Worship

Wor"ship, v. t. [imp. & p. p. WorshipedWorshipped; p. pr. & vb. n. WorshipingWorshipping.] 1. To respect; to honor; to treat with civil reverence. [Obsoles.] Chaucer.
Our grave . . . shall have a tongueless mouth, Not worshiped with a waxen epitaph.
This holy image that is man God worshipeth.
2. To pay divine honors to; to reverence with supreme respect and veneration; to perform religious exercises in honor of; to adore; to venerate.
But God is to be worshiped.
When all our fathers worshiped stocks and stones.
3. To honor with extravagant love and extreme submission, as a lover; to adore; to idolize.
With bended knees I daily worship her.
Syn. -- To adore; revere; reverence; bow to; honor.

Worship

Wor"ship , v. i. To perform acts of homage or adoration; esp., to perform religious service.
Our fathers worshiped in this mountain; and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
Was it for this I have loved . . . and worshiped in silence?

Excellence of character; dignity; worth; worthiness.

To respect; to honor; to treat with civil reverence.

To perform acts of homage or adoration; esp., to perform religious service.

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Usage Examples

Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.

Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.

I don't think, 'Gee, I'd like to dress this person.' There was a picture in Us magazine. It was a jersey dress, and Courtney Love was wearing it. I have this thing about Courtney Love, this funny worship.

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.

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Other Usage Examples

I'm learning, but I'm getting better at it because I'm learning how to hear God in worship.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.

Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.

In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury.

I hope and trust the infinite, the eternal, and merciful and loving God. I worship Him and feel no guilt in my heart before him for what I am going to do.

But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

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