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misworship

/mɪsˈwɜː(ɹ)ʃɪp/

misworship verb: to worship (a deity, etc.) wrongly.

Verb

misworship (third-person singular simple present misworships, present participle (US) misworshiping or (UK) misworshipping, simple past and past participle (US) misworshiped or (UK) misworshipped)

  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

Noun

misworship (countable and uncountable, plural misworships)

  1. 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...

Forms of misworship

Verb
third-person singular presentmisworships
present participle USmisworshiping
present participle UKmisworshipping
past participle USmisworshiped
past USmisworshiped
past participle UKmisworshipped
past UKmisworshipped
Noun
pluralmisworships

Origin of misworship

From mis- + worship.

Questions about misworship

What does misworship mean?
Misworship means to worship (a deity, etc.) wrongly.
What part of speech is misworship?
Misworship can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce misworship?
Misworship is pronounced /mɪsˈwɜː(ɹ)ʃɪp/.
What is the past tense of misworship?
The past tense of misworship is misworshiped.

Words near misworship in the dictionary

  1. misworked
  2. misworking
  3. misworkings
  4. misworks
  5. misworn
  6. misworship
  7. misworshiped
  8. misworshiping
  9. misworshipped
  10. misworshipper
  11. misworshippers

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