Adore vs. Worship — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Adore and Worship
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Adore
Love and respect (someone) deeply
He adored his mother
Worship
Worship is an act of religious devotion usually directed towards a deity. For many, worship is not about an emotion, it is more about a recognition of a God.
Adore
Worship; venerate
He adored the Sacred Host
Worship
The reverent love and devotion accorded a deity, an idol, or a sacred object.
Adore
To worship as God or a god.
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Worship
The ceremonies, prayers, or other religious forms by which this love is expressed
A chapel where worship is held daily.
Adore
To love (someone) deeply and devotedly.
Worship
Ardent admiration or love; adoration
The worship of celebrities.
Adore
To worship.
Worship
Often Worship Chiefly British Used as a form of address for magistrates, mayors, and certain other dignitaries
Your Worship.
Adore
To love with one's entire heart and soul; regard with deep respect and affection.
It is obvious to everyone that Gerry adores Heather.
Worship
To honor and love as a deity.
Adore
To be very fond of.
Worship
To regard with ardent or adoring esteem or devotion.
Adore
(obsolete) To adorn.
Worship
The devotion accorded to a deity or to a sacred object.
Polytheistic theology and worship had to go underground.
Adore
To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors to; to honor as a deity or as divine.
Bishops and priests, . . . bearing the host, which he [James II.] publicly adored.
Worship
The adoration owed to God alone, as greater than the veneration that may be accorded to figures such as saints.
Adore
To love in the highest degree; to regard with the utmost esteem and affection; to idolize.
The great mass of the population abhorred Popery and adored Monmouth.
Worship
The religious ceremonies that express this devotion.
Adore
To adorn.
Congealed little drops which do the morn adore.
Worship
(by extension) Voluntary, utter submission; voluntary, utter deference.
Adore
Love intensely;
He just adored his wife
Worship
(also by extension) Ardent love.
Worship
An object of worship.
Worship
Honour; respect; civil deference.
Worship
Used as a title or term of address for various officials, including magistrates
Worship
(obsolete) The condition of being worthy; honour, distinction.
Worship
(transitive) To reverence (a deity, etc.) with supreme respect and veneration; to perform religious exercises in honour of.
Worship
(transitive) To honour with extravagant love and extreme submission, as a lover; to adore; to idolize.
Worship
(intransitive) To participate in religious ceremonies.
We worship at the church down the road.
Worship
Excellence of character; dignity; worth; worthiness.
A man of worship and honour.
Elfin, born of noble state,And muckle worship in his native land.
Worship
Honor; respect; civil deference.
Of which great worth and worship may be won.
Then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee.
Worship
Hence, a title of honor, used in addresses to certain magistrates and others of rank or station.
My father desires your worships' company.
Worship
The act of paying divine honors to the Supreme Being; religious reverence and homage; adoration, or acts of reverence, paid to God, or a being viewed as God.
The worship of God is an eminent part of religion, and prayer is a chief part of religious worship.
Worship
Obsequious or submissive respect; extravagant admiration; adoration.
'T is your inky brows, your black silk hair,Your bugle eyeballs, nor your cheek of cream,That can my spirits to your worship.
Worship
An object of worship.
In attitude and aspect formed to beAt once the artist's worship and despair.
Worship
To respect; to honor; to treat with civil reverence.
Our grave . . . shall have a tongueless mouth,Not worshiped with a waxen epitaph.
This holy image that is man God worshipeth.
Worship
To pay divine honors to; to reverence with supreme respect and veneration; to perform religious exercises in honor of; to adore; to venerate.
But God is to be worshiped.
When all our fathers worshiped stocks and stones.
Worship
To honor with extravagant love and extreme submission, as a lover; to adore; to idolize.
With bended knees I daily worship her.
Worship
To perform acts of homage or adoration; esp., to perform religious service.
Our fathers worshiped in this mountain; and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
Was it for this I have loved . . . and worshiped in silence?
Worship
The activity of worshipping
Worship
A feeling of profound love and admiration
Worship
Love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol;
Many teenagers idolized the Beatles
Worship
Show devotion to (a deity);
Many Hindus worship Shiva
Worship
Attend religious services;
They worship in the traditional manner
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