heart-worship

It is, indeed, like a god of this nether world, holding dominion over many spheres of life and receiving the heart-worship of millions.

Education and the Higher Life J. L. Spalding

Hours of conversation could not so fully have revealed the truth to Meeta as those simple words: "Sophie -- my Sophie!" uttered by Ernest in such a tone of heart-worship.

Evenings at Donaldson Manor Or, The Christmas Guest 1840

But being one who could hope for nothing of this kind, not even for a decent return to the unreasoning heart-worship he felt himself capable of paying, and which he had once paid for a few short days till warned of his presumption by the insolence of the recipient, he had fixed his hope and his ambition on doing something which would rouse the admiration of those about him and bring him into that prominence to which he felt himself entitled.

Agatha Webb Anna Katharine Green 1890

But it is evident that individuals in Greece, in the third century before the Christian era, were already moving towards an intelligent heart-worship or had even begun to practise it! "

The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic Henry Rogers 1841