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misworship en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /mɪsˈwɜː(ɹ)ʃɪp/

Etymology

From mis- + worship.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) False or wrong worship; mistaken practices in religion.
    • Might men be their own judges, there would be no heresy in the world, no misworship. 1612–1634, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volume (please specify |volume=I to VIII), London, →OCLC:
    • Such hideous inextricable jungle of misworships, misbeliefs, men, made as we are, did actually hold by, and live at home in. 1840 May 5, Thomas Carlyle, “Lecture I. The Hero as Divinity. Odin. Paganism: Scandinavian Mythology.”, in On Heroes, Hero-Worship and The Heroic in History, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1840, →OCLC, page 4:

Forms

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misworships Number=Plur lexicographic

misworship en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /mɪsˈwɜː(ɹ)ʃɪp/

Etymology

From mis- + worship.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To worship (a deity, etc.) wrongly.
    • The Israelites misworshipped the true God; the Syrians worshipped a false. 1612–1634, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volume (please specify |volume=I to VIII), London, →OCLC:

Forms

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misworshiping Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part US lexicographic
misworshipping Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part UK lexicographic
misworshiped Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part US lexicographic
misworshiped Tense=Past US lexicographic
misworshipped Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part UK lexicographic
misworshipped Tense=Past UK lexicographic
misworships Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic