Pronunciation Noun
worship (uncountable)
- (obsolete) The condition of being worthy; honour, distinction.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/MaloryWks2/1:3.21?rgn=div2;view=fulltext chapter 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
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.3:
- Then he forth on his journey did proceede, / To seeke adventures which mote him befall, / And win him worship through his warlike deed […].
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/MaloryWks2/1:3.21?rgn=div2;view=fulltext chapter xxiij], in Le Morte Darthur, book I:
- The devotion accorded to a deity or to a sacred object.
- The religious ceremonies that express this devotion.
- 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.
- In attitude and aspect formed to be / At once the artist's worship and despair.
- Honour; respect; civil deference.
- of which great worth and worship may be won
- Bible, Gospel of Luke xiv. 10
- Then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee.
- French: culte, adoration, vénération
- German: Verehrung, Anbetung
- Italian: adorazione, venerazione, culto
- Portuguese: adoração, cultuação, culto
- Russian: поклоне́ние
- Spanish: adoración
- French: culte
- German: Gottesdienst, Verehrung, Anbetung
- Italian: culto
- Portuguese: culto
- Russian: богослуже́ние
- French: culte
- German: Verehrung, Anbetung
- Italian: culto, venerazione, adorazione, ardore
- Portuguese: adoração
- Russian: обожа́ние
worship (worships, present participle worshipping; past and past participle worshipped)
- (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: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by 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.
- With bended knees I daily worship her.
- (intransitive) To participate in religious ceremonies.
- We worship at the church down the road.
- French: vénérer, adorer
- German: verehren, anbeten
- Italian: adorare, venerare, deificare
- Portuguese: adorar, venerar, cultuar
- Russian: поклоня́ться
- Spanish: adorar
- Italian: celebrare
Worship
Noun
worship (plural worships)
- (British) A form of address of a mayor and other dignitaries
- (Canada, archaic) A form of address of a mayor.
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