Worship
To worship is to formally praise, honour, and declare one's devotion to a supernatural being, typically a god or goddess. Typical acts of worship include:- prayer;
- sacrifice;
- rituals;
- meditation;
- holidays, festivals;
- pilgrimages;
- hymns or psalms;
- the construction of temples or shrines[?];
- the creation of idols of the deity.
Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy distinguish between worship (Latin adoratio, Greek latria [λατρεια]) which is due to God alone, and veneration (Latin veneratio, Greek dulia [δουλεια]), which may be lawfully offered to the saints. The external acts of veneration resemble those of worship, but differ in their object and intent. Protestant Christians question whether such a distinction is always maintained in actual devotional practice, especially at the level of folk religion. Judaism and Islam hold that for all practical purposes veneration should be considered the same as prayer; Judaism, Islam, and Protestantism forbid veneration of saints or angels, classifying these actions as akin to idolatry.
In a figurative sense, worship of monarchs, lords, or lovers has a long history.
See Prayer; Goddess worship; dog worship; ancestor worship; demon worship; idol worship; imperial cult
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it the birds followed, shrieking, screaming, calling her bad
quite as if they really could.
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Jenny and Mr. Wren seemed to have forgotten all about Bully and
Orchard, there to talk it all over and rest and get their breath.
enough to him for a little more gossip. But they didn't, and
All the way there he chuckled as he thought of the spunky way in
the English Sparrow found Peter Rabbit in the Old Orchard again.
that nothing but some very great danger could have kept him away
to have their old house, Jenny and Mr. Wren would decide to leave
that as he hopped over a low place in the old stone wall he heard
from where Bully and Mrs. Bully had set up housekeeping. Peter
nothing of Jenny. He was just about to ask after her when he
her sharp little eyes at him, but for once her tongue was.
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