Word Finder - worships

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The condition of being worthy; honour, distinction.

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The devotion accorded to a deity or to a sacred object.

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The religious ceremonies that express this devotion.

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(by extension) Voluntary, utter submission; voluntary, utter deference.

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(also by extension) Ardent love.

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An object of worship.

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Honour; respect; civil deference.

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(chiefly British) Used as a title or term of address for various officials, including magistrates

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To reverence (a deity, etc.) with supreme respect and veneration; to perform religious exercises in honour of.

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To honour with extravagant love and extreme submission, as a lover; to adore; to idolize.

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To participate in religious ceremonies.

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We worship at the church down the road.

He worships and serves false gods, being unable to distinguish between truth and lies.

Mussulman books; they eat from their hands; the rao, when he appears in public, alternately worships God in a Hindu pagoda and a Mahommedan mosque; and he fits out annually at Mandvi a ship for the conveyance of pilgrims to Mecca, who are maintained during the voyage chiefly by the liberality of the prince.

The worships of Apollo and Heracles, though not confined to Dorians, were widely regarded as in some sense " Dorian " in character.

The common calendar and cycle of festivals, observed by all Dorians (of which the Carneia was chief), and the distribution in Greece of the worships of Apollo and Heracles, which attained pre-eminence mainly in or near districts historically " Dorian," suggest that these cults, or an important element in them, were introduced comparatively late, and represent the beliefs of a fresh ethnic superstratum.

The former was their creeds, the latter their cults or worships.

The local worships, which subsisted unchanged during the greater part of the Hebrew kingship, gave no expression to this.

As he advanced in life, Porphyry protested more and more earnestly against the rude faith of the common people and their immoral worships.

It is not God as abstract, infinite and eternal, as the far-away creator of the universe, or even as the ruler of the world, which Paul worships, but it is God revealed in Jesus Christ, the Father of Jesus Christ, the grace and mercy in Jesus Christ which deliver from evil.

It treats all the worships as outward, visible signs of some spiritual truth, and is ready to show how each particular image or rite is the symbol of some aspect of universal divinity.

No other term covers the whole of religious phenomena, and a survey of the complex details of various worships results in showing that no other conception will comprise the whole body of religious facts."

Prayer is much more hopeful and efficacious for a worshipper who has means of bringing near to himself, and even coercing the god he worships.

The most obvious characteristics of the ordinary Hindu are that he worships a plurality of gods, looks upon the cow as a sacred animal, and accepts the Brahmanical supremacy (see Brahmanism) and the caste system; and when it is a question whether one of the animistic tribes has or has not entered the fold of Hinduism, these two latter points seem to be the proper test to apply.

Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead.

In a land that worships the sun, the Brazilian bikini is cut down to the bare minimum for maximum exposure in every sense of the word.

They believe that the genre reflects a culture that worships vanity and wealth, rather than virtue and humility.