WORSHIPFUL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does worshipful mean? 

• WORSHIPFUL (adjective)
  The adjective WORSHIPFUL has 2 senses:

1. showing adoration

2. showing great reverence for god

  Familiarity information: WORSHIPFUL used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WORSHIPFUL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Showing adoration

Synonyms:

adoring; worshipful

Similar:

reverent (feeling or showing profound respect or veneration)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Showing great reverence for god

Synonyms:

godly; reverent; worshipful

Context example:

leading a godly life

Similar:

pious (having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity)

 Context examples 

I have in my shoe, most worshipful sir, a strip of wood which belonged once to the bark wherein the blessed Paul was dashed up against the island of Melita.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He felt like sitting at the feet of the professor, worshipful and absorbent; but, as he listened, he began to discern a weakness in the other's judgments—a weakness so stray and elusive that he might not have caught it had it not been ever present.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

For three days Perrault and François threw chests up and down the main street of Skaguay and were deluged with invitations to drink, while the team was the constant centre of a worshipful crowd of dog-busters and mushers.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Dead as Pontius Pilate, worshipful sir.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Maria, with worshipful eyes that none the less were keen to note the texture of Ruth's garments and the cut of them (a cut unknown that produced an effect mysteriously beautiful), saw her to the carriage.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He wondered that they did not want to, that they had been out having a good time instead of being with her that evening, talking with her, sitting around her in a worshipful and adoring circle.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)