worship
/icons/point.icon REVERE, REVERENCE, VENERATE, WORSHIP, ADORE mean to honor and admire profoundly and respectfully.
REVERE stresses deference and tenderness of feeling.
e.g. a professor revered by her students
REVERENCE presupposes an intrinsic merit and inviolability in the one honored and a similar depth of feeling in the one honoring.
e.g. reverenced the academy's code of honor
VENERATE implies a holding as holy or sacrosanct because of character, association, or age.
e.g. heroes still venerated
WORSHIP implies homage usually expressed in words or ceremony.
e.g. worships their memory
ADORE implies love and stresses the notion of an individual and personal attachment.
e.g. we adored our doctor
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noun
the feeling or expression of reverence and adoration for a deity:
【神･神聖なものなどに対する】崇拝 «of»
e.g. the worship of God
e.g. ancestor worship.
the acts or rites that make up a formal expression of reverence for a deity; a religious ceremony or ceremonies:
礼拝(式), 参拝
e.g. the church was opened for public worship.
adoration or devotion comparable to religious homage, shown toward a person or principle:
【人･物に対する】(時に盲目的な)賛美, 礼賛; 尊敬(の念) «of»
e.g. our society’s worship of teenagers.
archaic honor given to someone in recognition of their merit.
as title (His Worship/Your Worship) chiefly British used in addressing or referring to an important or high-ranking person, especially a magistrate or mayor:
your/his/her Worship:｟主に英･かたく｠ 閣下 (!市長･判事などに対する敬称; yourは直接呼びかけるときに, his, herは間接的にさし示すときに用いる)
e.g. we were soon joined by His Worship the Mayor.
verb (worships, worshiping, worshiped; also worships, worshipping, worshipped) with object
show reverence and adoration for (a deity); honor with religious rites:
〈人が〉(祈りなどにより)〈神など〉を崇拝する
e.g. the Maya built jungle pyramids to worship their gods.
no object take part in a religious ceremony:
〈人が〉礼拝をする, に行く
e.g. he went to the cathedral because he chose to worship in a spiritually inspiring building.
treat (someone or something) with the reverence and adoration appropriate to a deity:
〈人が〉…を賛美, 尊敬する
e.g. she adores her sons and they worship her.
ORIGIN
Old English weorthscipe‘worthiness, acknowledgment of worth’(see worth, -ship).