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disworship

disworship noun: a deprivation of honour or cause of disgrace.

Noun

disworship (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) A deprivation of honour or cause of disgrace.
    • Observ now the arrogance of a groom, how it will mount. I had writt'n, that common adultery is a thing which the rankest Politician would think it shame and disworship that his Law should countenance.1645, John Milton, Colasterion

Verb

disworship (third-person singular simple present disworships, present participle (US) disworshiping or (UK) disworshipping, simple past and past participle (US) disworshiped or (UK) disworshipped)

  1. To refuse to worship; to treat as unworthy of worship.
    • disworshipping and dishonouring God1684, Obadiah Walker, A Paraphrase and Annotations Upon All the Epistles of St Paul

Forms of disworship

third-person singular presentdisworships
present participle USdisworshiping
present participle UKdisworshipping
past participle USdisworshiped
past USdisworshiped
past participle UKdisworshipped
past UKdisworshipped

Origin of disworship

From Middle English disworship, disworshipe, dysworschip, equivalent to dis- + worship (noun).

From Middle English disworschipen, equivalent to dis- + worship (verb).

Questions about disworship

What does disworship mean?
Disworship means a deprivation of honour or cause of disgrace.
What part of speech is disworship?
Disworship can be a noun or a verb.

Words near disworship in the dictionary

  1. diswitted
  2. diswont
  3. diswonted
  4. diswonting
  5. diswonts
  6. disworship
  7. disworshiped
  8. disworshiping
  9. disworshipped
  10. disworshipping
  11. disworships

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