Word Meanings - WORSHIP - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Excellence of character; dignity; worth; worthiness. Shak. A man of worship and honour. Chaucer. Elfin, born of noble state, And muckle worship in his native land. Spenser. 2. Honor; respect; civil deference. Of which great worth and worship
Additional info about word: WORSHIP
1. Excellence of character; dignity; worth; worthiness. Shak. A man of worship and honour. Chaucer. Elfin, born of noble state, And muckle worship in his native land. Spenser. 2. Honor; respect; civil deference. Of which great worth and worship may be won. Spenser. Then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee. Luke xiv. 10. 3. Hence, a title of honor, used in addresses to certain magistrates and others of rank or station. My father desires your worships' company. Shak. 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. Tillotson. 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. Shak. 6. An object of worship. In attitude and aspect formed to be At once the artist's worship and despair. Longfellow. Devil worship, Fire worship, Hero worship, etc. See under Devil, Fire, Hero, etc.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WORSHIP)
- Adore
- Admire
- hallow
- glorify
- praise
- venerate
- reverence
- worship
- idolize
- Homage
- Fealty
- allegiance
- submission
- deference
- fiance
- respect
- veneration
- Idolize
- Worship
- adore
- Reverence
- Honor
- awe
- adoration
- devotion
- homage
- Veneration
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of WORSHIP)
Related words: (words related to WORSHIP)
- WORSHIPFUL
Entitled to worship, reverence, or high respect; claiming respect; worthy of honor; -- often used as a term of respect, sometimes ironically. "This is worshipful society." Shak. so dear and worshipful. Chaucer. -- Wor"ship*ful*ly, adv. - DISREGARDFULLY
Negligently; heedlessly. - HALLOW
To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed - ADMIRED
1. Regarded with wonder and delight; highly prized; as, an admired poem. 2. Wonderful; also, admirable. "Admired disorder." " Admired Miranda." Shak. - HONORABLE
1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an - PRAISEWORTHINESS
The quality or state of being praiseworthy. - ADORE
adorare; ad + orare to speak, pray, os, oris, mouth. In OE. confused with honor, the French prefix a- being confused with OE. a, an, on. 1. To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors to; to honor as deity or as divine. Smollett. 2. - IDOLIZE
1. To make an idol of; to pay idolatrous worship to; as, to idolize the sacred bull in Egypt. 2. To love to excess; to love or reverence to adoration; as, to idolize gold, children, a hero. - CENSURER
One who censures. Sha. - WORSHIPABLE
Capable of being worshiped; worthy of worship. Carlyle. - DEVOTIONALLY
In a devotional manner; toward devotion. - HONORABLENESS
1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness. - RESPECTER
One who respects. A respecter of persons, one who regards or judges with partiality. Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts x. - CONTEMNER
One who contemns; a despiser; a scorner. "Contemners of the gods." South. - PRAISER
1. One who praises. "Praisers of men." Sir P. Sidney. 2. An appraiser; a valuator. Sir T. North. - VENERATION
The act of venerating, or the state of being venerated; the highest degree of respect and reverence; respect mingled with awe; a feeling or sentimental excited by the dignity, wisdom, or superiority of a person, by sacredness of character, - BLAME
LL. also to blame, fr. Gr. to speak ill to slander, to blaspheme, fr. evil speaking, perh, for ; injury + a saying, fr. to 1. To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach. We have none to blame but ourselves. - BLAMER
One who blames. Wyclif. - ADOREMENT
The act of adoring; adoration. Sir T. Browne. - DISHONOR
The nonpayment or nonacceptance of commercial paper by the party on whom it is drawn. Syn. -- Disgrace; ignominy; shame; censure; reproach; opprobrium. (more info) deshonur, F. déshonneur; pref. des- + honor, honur, F. 1. Lack of honor; - APPRAISER
One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates. - DISRESPECTABILITY
Want of respectability. Thackeray. - MISWORSHIP
Wrong or false worship; mistaken practices in religion. Bp. Hall. Such hideous jungle of misworships. Carlyle. - DISGLORIFY
To deprive of glory; to treat with indignity. Disglorified, blasphemed, and had in scorn. Milton. - UNHALLOWED
Not consecrated; hence, profane; unholy; impious; wicked. In the cause of truth, no unhallowed violence . . . is either necessary or admissible. E. D. Griffin. - SELF-DEVOTION
The act of devoting one's self, or the state of being self- devoted; willingness to sacrifice one's own advantage or happiness for the sake of others; self-sacrifice. - SELF-WORSHIP
The idolizing of one's self; immoderate self-conceit. - BY-RESPECT
Private end or view; by-interest. Dryden.