Crossword Dictionary
WORSHIP
worship - v
show devotion to (a deity); "Many Hindus worship Shiva"
attend religious services; "They worship in the traditional manner"
Synonyms
adoration, church service, devotion, prayer, rite, ritual, adulation, awe, beatification, benediction, chapel, deification, exaltation, genuflection, glory, homage, honor, idolatry, idolization, invocation, love, offering, praise, prostration, regard, respect, reverence, service, supplication, veneration, vespers
Examples
The way I figure it, he's more in love with the idea of having a woman worship him than he is with me.
At morning worship the service consists of a litany, scripture lessons, sermon, singing, extempore prayer.
At the graves of national heroes or ancestors worship was paid.
Etymology
Old English worðscip, wurðscip (Anglian), weorðscipe (West Saxon) "condition of being worthy, dignity, glory, distinction, honor, renown," from weorð "worthy" (see worth) + -scipe (see -ship). Sense of "reverence paid to a supernatural or divine being" is first recorded c. 1300. The original sense is preserved in the title worshipful "honorable" (c. 1300).