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misworshipping

misworshipping is the present participle and gerund of misworship.

Meaning of misworship

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

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Questions about misworshipping

What is misworshipping the present participle and gerund of?
Misworshipping is the present participle and gerund of misworship.

Words near misworshipping in the dictionary

  1. misworshiped
  2. misworshiping
  3. misworshipped
  4. misworshipper
  5. misworshippers
  6. misworshipping
  7. misworships
  8. miswound
  9. miswove
  10. miswoven
  11. miswrap

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misworshipping (page history and authors); misworship (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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