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Worship

noun

The activity of worshipping.

A feeling of profound love and admiration. Synonym: adoration.

verb

(past & past part. worshiped or worshipped; pres. part. worshiping or worshipping)

Love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol. Synonyms: hero-worship, idolise, idolize, revere.

Show devotion to (a deity).

Attend religious services.

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"Worship" Quotes from Famous Books

... rather ugly eyes in the crowd were illumined with pure hero-worship. "That's 'im," explained their owner, nudging a big man in shabby white drill, who was shouldering a deliberate ...

— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves

... either an exceptionally mean or an exceptionally noble character, according to how one views the matter. He worshipped his wife—as men with big hearts and weak brains often do worship such women—with dog-like devotion. His only dread was lest the scandal should reach proportions that would compel him to take notice of it, and thus bring shame and suffering upon the woman he would have given his life to. That a man who saw her should love her seemed natural ...

— The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various

... exactly to what training she owed her skill. He even tried to trace the source of his obligations, to discriminate between the influences which had combined to produce his domestic happiness: he perceived that Haskett's commonness had made Alice worship good breeding, while Varick's liberal construction of the marriage bond had taught her to value the conjugal virtues; so that he was directly indebted to his predecessors for the devotion which made his life easy ...

— The Descent of Man and Other Stories • Edith Wharton

... for them, and they have strange gods. The Navajos will hunt on this side of the mountain, but not on the other. That north side is consecrated ground. My wife has long been trying to get the Navajos to tell her the secret of Nonnezoshe. Nonnezoshe means Rainbow Bridge. The Indians worship it, but as far as she can find out only a few have ever seen it. I imagine it'd be worth ...

— The Rainbow Trail • Zane Grey

... pride, or delight, or defense, not in any wise associated with religious sentiment; the towers of Jerusalem being named in the same sentence, not with her temple, but with her bulwarks and palaces. And thus, when the tower is in reality connected with a place of worship, it was generally done to add to its magnificence, but not to add to its religious expression. And over the whole of the world, you have various species of elevated buildings, the Egyptian pyramid, the Indian and Chinese pagoda, the Turkish minaret, and the Christian belfry,—all ...

— Lectures on Architecture and Painting - Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853 • John Ruskin

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