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  • verb UK Simple past tense and past participle of worship.

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  • adjective regarded with deep or rapturous love (especially as if for a god)

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Examples

  • The calf they worshipped is here called the calf of

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

  • It is at least certain that Lord John Russell served England -- the country whose freedom, he once declared, he 'worshipped' -- with unwearied devotion, with a high sense of honour, with a courage which never faltered, with an integrity which has never been impeached.

    Lord John Russell 1887

  • The only reason he’s worshipped is that he’s safely dead.

    Matthew Yglesias » King and Nonviolence 2009

  • Whenever any civil or ecclesiastical enactment conflicts with the requisitions of Jehovah, that power is worshipped, which is obeyed in preference to the other: “Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are whom ye obey?”

    A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse Sylvester Bliss 1838

  • On top of that, because * mulungu spirits demanded supplication in the places in which they dwelled, many times Africans are characterized as having "worshipped" God in the "bush" when their propitiatory ceremonies were in reality supplicating forest-dwelling spirits that could cause havoc and were wholly distinct from * Mulungu, the Creator. 31

    Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE 2008

  • Funny how fickle the public is, Had it been someone who doesnt know how to act or isnt in the least some kind of worshipped celelbrity, would you dorks be pining over him this much?

    Heath Ledger wins Oscar 2009

  • Still, he "worshipped" Miss Elsa and Miss Sophy, the sister-teachers at the private school where his parents sent him after the public school failed to teach him to write legibly.

    The Education of Peter Drucker 2005

  • Still, he "worshipped" Miss Elsa and Miss Sophy, the sister-teachers at the private school where his parents sent him after the public school failed to teach him to write legibly.

    The Education of Peter Drucker 2005

  • Monwabisi had "worshipped" his father and had complained about not seeing him.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • These prophets of Baal were such as worshipped the sun, after the manner of the Tyrians.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

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