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antiworship

antiworship noun: actions that are contrary to worship.

Noun

antiworship (uncountable)

  1. Actions that are contrary to worship.
    • God objects to paganism and idolatry because it is the ultimate act of antiworship, where humans create a god in their own image, or else humans create manageable gods that they think they can manipulate or control, or humans use the pantheon to legitimate the violence and machinations of...2013, Michael F. Bird, Evangelical Theology: A Biblical and Systematic Introduction, Zondervan, →ISBN
    • I have named this paradoxical position—a combination of belief and antiworship —as misotheism. The word is derived from the Greek root misos misos (for 'hatred') and theos (for 'God').2013, Stephen Bullivant, Michael Ruse, The Oxford Handbook of Atheism, OUP Oxford, →ISBN

Origin of antiworship

From anti- + worship.

Questions about antiworship

What does antiworship mean?
Antiworship means actions that are contrary to worship.
What part of speech is antiworship?
Antiworship is a noun.

Words near antiworship in the dictionary

  1. antiwork
  2. antiworker
  3. antiworld
  4. antiworlds
  5. antiworm
  6. antiworship
  7. antiwrinkle
  8. antiwrinkling
  9. antixenophobia
  10. antixenophobic
  11. antixenosis

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