Word Meanings - WORSHIPFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Additional info about word: 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. -- Wor"ship*ful*ness, n.

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• 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.
• 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
• WORSHIPABLE
  Capable of being worshiped; worthy of worship. Carlyle.
• SOMETIMES
  1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . .
• HONORABLENESS
  1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness.
• RESPECT
  An expression of respect of deference; regards; as, to send one's respects to another. 4. Reputation; repute. Many of the best respect in Rome. Shak. 5. Relation; reference; regard. They believed but one Supreme Deity, which, with respect to the
• 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.
• HONOR
  1. Esteem due or paid to worth; high estimation; respect; consideration; reverence; veneration; manifestation of respect or reverence. A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country. Matt. xiii.
• OFTENNESS
  Frequency. Hooker.
• HONORARY
  1. Done as a sign or evidence of honor; as, honorary services. Macaulay. 2. Conferring honor, or intended merely to confer honor without emolument; as, an honorary degree. "Honorary arches." Addison. 3. Holding a title or place without rendering
• CLAIMABLE
  Capable of being claimed.
• WORTHY
  A man of eminent worth or value; one distinguished for useful and estimable qualities; a person of conspicuous desert; -- much used in the plural; as, the worthies of the church; political worthies; military worthies. The blood of ancient worthies
• SOCIETY
  1. The relationship of men to one another when associated in any way; companionship; fellowship; company. "Her loved society." Milton. There is society where none intrudes By the deep sea, and music in its roar. Byron. 2. Connection; participation;
• RESPECTABILITY
  The state or quality of being respectable; the state or quality which deserves or commands respect.
• OFTEN
  Frequent; common; repeated. "Thine often infirmities." 1 Tim. v. 23. And weary thee with often welcomes. Beau. & Fl.
• RESPECTIVELY
  1. As relating to each; particularly; as each belongs to each; as each refers to each in order; as, let each man respectively perform his duty. The impressions from the objects or the senses do mingle respectively every one with its kind. Bacon.
• REVERENCER
  One who regards with reverence. "Reverencers of crowned heads." Swift.
• HONORLESS
  Destitute of honor; not honored. Bp. Warburton.
• RESPECTANT
  Placed so as to face one another; -- said of animals.
• HONORARIUM; HONORARY
  An honorary payment, usually in recognition of services for which it is not usual or not lawful to assign a fixed business price. Heumann. (more info) 1. A fee offered to professional men for their services; as, an honorarium of one thousand
• RECLAIMABLE
  That may be reclaimed.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• RECLAIMER
  One who reclaims.
• MISWORSHIP
  Wrong or false worship; mistaken practices in religion. Bp. Hall. Such hideous jungle of misworships. Carlyle.
• ACCLAIM
  1. To applaud. "A glad acclaiming train." Thomson. 2. To declare by acclamations. While the shouting crowd Acclaims thee king of traitors. Smollett. 3. To shout; as, to acclaim my joy.
• BENEFIT SOCIETY
  A society or association formed for mutual insurance, as among tradesmen or in labor unions, to provide for relief in sickness, old age, and for the expenses of burial. Usually called friendly society in Great Britain.
• SELF-WORSHIP
  The idolizing of one's self; immoderate self-conceit.
• BY-RESPECT
  Private end or view; by-interest. Dryden.
• UNREVERENCE
  Absence or lack of reverence; irreverence. Wyclif.
• UNWORSHIP
  To deprive of worship or due honor; to dishonor. Wyclif.
• UNRESPECT
  Disrespect. "Unrespect of her toil." Bp. Hall.
• RECLAIM
  To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of. A tract of land snatched from an element perpetually reclaiming its prior occupancy. W. Coxe.
• NONCLAIM
  A failure to make claim within the time limited by law; omission of claim.
• DISRESPECT
  Want of respect or reverence; disesteem; incivility; discourtesy. Impatience of bearing the least affront or disrespect. Pope.