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WORSHIPPED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does worshipped mean? 

WORSHIPPED (adjective)
  The adjective WORSHIPPED has 1 sense:

1. regarded with deep or rapturous love (especially as if for a god)play

  Familiarity information: WORSHIPPED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


WORSHIPPED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Regarded with deep or rapturous love (especially as if for a god)

Synonyms:

adored; idolised; idolized; worshipped

Context example:

an idolized wife

Similar:

loved (held dear)


 Context examples 


I have worshipped You long and afar off.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

And you girls probably worshipped him, as a convent full of religieuses would worship their director.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was as if he had seen the sun fall out of the sky, or had seen worshipped purity polluted.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I told her that I idolized and worshipped her.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mr. Knightley, always so kind, so feeling, so truly considerate for every body, would never deserve to be less worshipped than now; and it really was too much to hope even of Harriet, that she could be in love with more than three men in one year.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

A job was to them a golden fetich before which they fell down and worshipped.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Not a human being that ever lived could wish to be loved better than I was loved; and him who thus loved me I absolutely worshipped: and I must renounce love and idol.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He worshipped her.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Unwittingly, Ruth herself proved his point that she worshipped the established.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He worshipped it.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)



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