WORSHIP
\wˈɜːʃɪp], \wˈɜːʃɪp], \w_ˈɜː_ʃ_ɪ_p]\
Definitions of WORSHIP
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol; "Many teenagers idolized the Beatles"
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show devotion to (a deity); "Many Hindus worship Shiva"
By Princeton University
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love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol; "Many teenagers idolized the Beatles"
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show religious devotion to, as of a deity; "Many Hindus worship Shiva"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Excellence of character; dignity; worth; worthiness.
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Honor; respect; civil deference.
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Hence, a title of honor, used in addresses to certain magistrates and others of rank or station.
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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.
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Obsequious or submissive respect; extravagant admiration; adoration.
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An object of worship.
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To respect; to honor; to treat with civil reverence.
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To pay divine honors to; to reverence with supreme respect and veneration; to perform religious exercises in honor of; to adore; to venerate.
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To honor with extravagant love and extreme submission, as a lover; to adore; to idolize.
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To perform acts of homage or adoration; esp., to perform religious service.
By Oddity Software
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Excellence of character; dignity; worth; worthiness.
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Honor; respect; civil deference.
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Hence, a title of honor, used in addresses to certain magistrates and others of rank or station.
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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.
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Obsequious or submissive respect; extravagant admiration; adoration.
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An object of worship.
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To respect; to honor; to treat with civil reverence.
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To pay divine honors to; to reverence with supreme respect and veneration; to perform religious exercises in honor of; to adore; to venerate.
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To honor with extravagant love and extreme submission, as a lover; to adore; to idolize.
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To perform acts of homage or adoration; esp., to perform religious service.
By Noah Webster.
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The act of paying reverence, adoration, or homage to God, a god, or a sacred object; as, the worship of an idol; reverence; courtesy; excessive admiration; a title of honor used, especially in England, in addressing magistrates.
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To pay divine honors, or religious service, to; admire excessively; reverence with great respect.
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To perform acts of adoration, such as religious services.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Religious service: adoration paid to God: a title of honor: submissive respect.
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To respect highly: to treat with civil reverence: to pay divine honors to: to adore or idolise.
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To perform acts of adoration: to perform religious service:-pr.p. worshipping; pa.t. and pa.p. worshipped.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [From worth and the termination ship.] Dignity; eminence; excellence;-honour; respect;-hence, a title of honour used in addresses to certain magistrates;-religious reverence and homage; adoration paid to God or to a being viewed as God;-idolatry of lovers.
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