WORSHIP


Meaning of WORSHIP in English

I. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a place of worship

The church is much more than a place of worship.

bow down in worship

Come, let us bow down in worship .

freedom of religion/worship (= the right to hold/practise any religious belief )

Liberal newspapers made an effort to secure religious toleration and freedom of worship.

hero worship

worship God (= show love and respect for God )

Hinduism tells everyone to worship God in his own faith.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

goddess

Through shouts and music and dancing we worship the Goddess with joyous bodies.

These passages mimic the cave sanctuaries in those mountains where the people of such places as Crete went to worship the Goddess .

In later periods people worshipped the Goddess as a stone, often black and / or conical.

Jouctas, like Ida and Dikte, contains cave sanctuaries where the Cretans worshipped the Goddess .

Could a culture of human beings worshipping a Goddess really get by without murder or war?

The Bible describes both cities as evil precisely because people there worshipped the Goddess .

people

Besides, people will worship anything.

In later periods people worshipped the Goddess as a stone, often black and / or conical.

It goes back to the days when people used to worship heavenly bodies as gods.

The Bible describes both cities as evil precisely because people there worshipped the Goddess.

There are a lot of well-meaning people in this who worship Ross Perot.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Your/His Worship

act of worship

A hymn should be an act of worship in its own right and not something to dispel a silence.

The Commission affirms the value of music for attracting potential believers to acts of worship and to the Church's fellowship.

They picture women gathered together to dance or perform some apparently ritualistic act of worship.

house of God/worship

But there are legitimate houses of worship here that welcome any serious couple who want to exchange vows before family and friends.

If man is made of clay, why not his houses of worship?

It is not a lack of money that keeps parishioners from expanding the historic house of worship.

No house of worship nor community center should be bereft of personnel or equipment for such education.

The area also has many historical houses of worship, which can be toured.

The Civil War almost devastated these little Baptist houses of worship.

They had no temples or houses of worship.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Garvey worshipped the ground his wife walked on.

He worshipped his elder brother.

In Susie's eyes he can do no wrong - she worships the ground he walks on.

Kevin practically worships his older brother.

She absolutely worships Elvis Presley.

The Ancient Egyptians worshipped many gods.

the people worshipping in the mosque

The whole family worshipped together at the chapel.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

His crews worshipped him and he responded by showing a genuine concern for their welfare.

She worshipped him for worshipping Marx, or appeared to.

Stella worships her too-good-to-be-true son, and Winston appears to have no flaws.

Very ordinary ladies, but worshipped their brother as if he was the Messiah.

We are very fortunate to have the privilege of worshipping Sunday by Sunday in a full church.

II. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

collective

The Act required the whole school to meet for the daily act of collective worship unless the school premises made this impracticable.

public

Members of the congregation need the foundation of a solid personal spirituality of which public worship is but an ingredient.

Among the Corinthians were some women who, when praying and prophesying in public worship , removed their head coverings.

The Chaplains organise public worship , discussion groups, excursions and other activities all of which are advertised in the University.

Governor John Seymour had seen to the passage of laws designed to prevent public worship and to bar Catholic newcomers.

Largely at Mr Shillington's expense, the unfinished church was completed and opened for public worship in 1802.

religious

I also think you can feel such sensations in places where great acts of religious worship have taken place.

But this sequence Freud could not allow in the case of the religious emotion of worship .

■ NOUN

ancestor

After all, these islands have been steeped for centuries in everything from witchcraft to ancestor worship .

The sacred, the past, ancestor worship seem to be the chosen grounds in most cases.

Pre-Columbian ancestor worship finds expression in prayers to the saints.

There is no clearer case of ancestor worship in the Western world.

hero

He had a tendency toward hero worship and often gushed embarrassingly in correspondence with his heroes.

And it wasn't all hero worship .

service

We have enjoyed the openness in prayer and praise in the worship services .

It is a major draw for Christians who gather each Easter for sunrise worship services .

Formats are mainly worship services and information.

song

This covers a wide range of worship songs , but only a small amount of hymnody.

Many of the new hymn books include worship songs and they find widespread acceptance.

Modern church worship songs range in style from rock to romantic ballads.

In such establishments the emphasis is usually strongly evangelistic, with worship songs , visiting choirs, pop groups and challenging preaching.

So too does the use of solos or worship songs and instrumental pieces.

■ VERB

attend

Also it was expected of Rangers to attend divine worship .

Secondly, about half of those who did attend for worship chose to go to a Nonconformist chapel.

lead

But it's power also of concern to those who are responsible for the planning and leading of worship .

Laymen, Columbus among them, would lead shipboard worship .

The ability to sing a service is not, however, as important as having the skills required to lead worship .

For the music to be led by a worship band seems to me to be more appropriate to our culture.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Christians, Muslims and Jews came together for an act of communal worship .

Helping the poor is a form of true worship to God.

The villagers gather for worship in the little church every Sunday.

This church has been a place of worship for a thousand years.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

I shall say only that when we returned for worship next day the whole building was pristine.

Pre-Columbian ancestor worship finds expression in prayers to the saints.

Should not worship set forth the gospel and proclaim the faith of the Church?

The Civil War almost devastated these little Baptist houses of worship .

There was always a diversity of practice - as there still is - in religious attitudes, customs and modes of worship .

They had control of the Temple worship , sacrifices and finances.

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