(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) The author discusses marriages in which a basically insecure husband plays a god-like role and his wife, who initially worshipped him, matures and finds her situation depressing and degrading.
(2) If you worship money and things - if they are where you tap real meaning in life - then you will never have enough.
(3) At first hardline Islamist groups, and later the country’s religious establishment, had been calling for the statue’s removal, on the grounds that its presence was an example of idol worship, forbidden in Islam .
(4) At a press conference held outside the temple on Sunday, Oak Creek police chief John Edwards said the "heroic actions" of the two officers "stopped this from being worse than it could have been", noting that many people had gathered for worship at the time of the attack.
(5) The idea that churches should only be places of worship is quite a modern view,” says Matthew McKeague, head of regeneration at the Churches Conservation Trust.
(6) Lauren was my only daughter and I worshipped the ground she walked on and this person was hiding behind a computer.
(7) Likewise, Hippocrates, the father of western medicine, prescribed sun worship as a vital constituent of heath and had a solarium installed on the island of Kos.
(8) Having narrowly avoided taking the state into the realm of a free press we should not be intruding on the freedom of worship that is the proper preserve of the church not the courts."
(9) In a time of growing tensions we must uphold our fundamental freedom to worship in the land of religious freedom and its why I choose to be unapologetically Muslim every day.
(10) New Labour actively championed the City, worshipping the bankers and marketing London as a financial centre where the regulation would be light touch.
(11) David Cameron is supporting a compromise through what is known as a permissive clause that allows gay marriages to be held in places of worship but does not oblige religious organisations to hold same-sex weddings.
(12) On Sunday, gun control advocates plan to hold a "National Gun Prevention Sabbath", where they say 150 houses of worship will advocate a plan to prevent gun violence, and people who have lost friends and relatives to gun violence will display their photographs.
(13) Over the summer, Hindu nationalists in India performed ceremonial rituals for Trump in the hopes that their worship would help him get elected, so he can “ put an end to Islamic terrorism ”.
(14) But like many South Africans, he balances indigenous ancestor worship with the Christian God‚ or at least gives that impression publicly.
(15) In his book School Worship: An Obituary (1975), he argued against the practice of compulsory worship in inclusive schools.
(16) But one way of looking at the whole armour of Christian practices – prayer, worship, and endless discussion of these things – is that their function is to suggest that it doesn’t have to be a delusion, that the world around them may be wrong.
(17) There is an inability to break with the slavish, neoliberal worship of that abstract totem, the national economy.
(18) His new organisation, described in one account as being "characterised by the ultra-left posturing and Mao worship", was called the Workers' Institute of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought.
(19) Here workmen brought from distant Rajasthan are preparing spectacular marble panels inlaid with semi-precious stone for a new place of worship, or gurdwara .
(20) But this was still very much hero worship, northern-style: the 100 or so Werder Bremen fans stood in orderly rows in the Bremen airport arrivals hall in early September, strictly behind the barrier, of course, and many of them carried smiles that were equal parts genuine, childlike excitement and self-deprecating mocking of their own genuine, childlike excitement, a way to cope with the sense of wonderment: are we really here?
Worshipable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being worshiped; worthy of worship.
Example Sentences:
(1) The author discusses marriages in which a basically insecure husband plays a god-like role and his wife, who initially worshipped him, matures and finds her situation depressing and degrading.
(2) If you worship money and things - if they are where you tap real meaning in life - then you will never have enough.
(3) At first hardline Islamist groups, and later the country’s religious establishment, had been calling for the statue’s removal, on the grounds that its presence was an example of idol worship, forbidden in Islam .
(4) At a press conference held outside the temple on Sunday, Oak Creek police chief John Edwards said the "heroic actions" of the two officers "stopped this from being worse than it could have been", noting that many people had gathered for worship at the time of the attack.
(5) The idea that churches should only be places of worship is quite a modern view,” says Matthew McKeague, head of regeneration at the Churches Conservation Trust.
(6) Lauren was my only daughter and I worshipped the ground she walked on and this person was hiding behind a computer.
(7) Likewise, Hippocrates, the father of western medicine, prescribed sun worship as a vital constituent of heath and had a solarium installed on the island of Kos.
(8) Having narrowly avoided taking the state into the realm of a free press we should not be intruding on the freedom of worship that is the proper preserve of the church not the courts."
(9) In a time of growing tensions we must uphold our fundamental freedom to worship in the land of religious freedom and its why I choose to be unapologetically Muslim every day.
(10) New Labour actively championed the City, worshipping the bankers and marketing London as a financial centre where the regulation would be light touch.
(11) David Cameron is supporting a compromise through what is known as a permissive clause that allows gay marriages to be held in places of worship but does not oblige religious organisations to hold same-sex weddings.
(12) On Sunday, gun control advocates plan to hold a "National Gun Prevention Sabbath", where they say 150 houses of worship will advocate a plan to prevent gun violence, and people who have lost friends and relatives to gun violence will display their photographs.
(13) Over the summer, Hindu nationalists in India performed ceremonial rituals for Trump in the hopes that their worship would help him get elected, so he can “ put an end to Islamic terrorism ”.
(14) But like many South Africans, he balances indigenous ancestor worship with the Christian God‚ or at least gives that impression publicly.
(15) In his book School Worship: An Obituary (1975), he argued against the practice of compulsory worship in inclusive schools.
(16) But one way of looking at the whole armour of Christian practices – prayer, worship, and endless discussion of these things – is that their function is to suggest that it doesn’t have to be a delusion, that the world around them may be wrong.
(17) There is an inability to break with the slavish, neoliberal worship of that abstract totem, the national economy.
(18) His new organisation, described in one account as being "characterised by the ultra-left posturing and Mao worship", was called the Workers' Institute of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought.
(19) Here workmen brought from distant Rajasthan are preparing spectacular marble panels inlaid with semi-precious stone for a new place of worship, or gurdwara .
(20) But this was still very much hero worship, northern-style: the 100 or so Werder Bremen fans stood in orderly rows in the Bremen airport arrivals hall in early September, strictly behind the barrier, of course, and many of them carried smiles that were equal parts genuine, childlike excitement and self-deprecating mocking of their own genuine, childlike excitement, a way to cope with the sense of wonderment: are we really here?