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hero worship
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Hero worship
(gcide) | Worship \Wor"ship\, n. [OE. worshipe, wur[eth]scipe, AS.
weor[eth]scipe; weor[eth] worth + -scipe -ship. See Worth,
a., and -ship.]
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1. Excellence of character; dignity; worth; worthiness.
[Obs.] --Shak.
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A man of worship and honour. --Chaucer.
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Elfin, born of noble state,
And muckle worship in his native land. --Spenser.
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2. Honor; respect; civil deference. [Obs.]
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Of which great worth and worship may be won.
--Spenser.
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Then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them
that sit at meat with thee. --Luke xiv.
10.
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3. Hence, a title of honor, used in addresses to certain
magistrates and others of rank or station.
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My father desires your worships' company. --Shak.
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4. 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. "God
with idols in their worship joined." --Milton.
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The worship of God is an eminent part of religion,
and prayer is a chief part of religious worship.
--Tillotson.
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5. Obsequious or submissive respect; extravagant admiration;
adoration.
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'T is your inky brows, your black silk hair,
Your bugle eyeballs, nor your cheek of cream,
That can my spirits to your worship. --Shak.
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6. An object of worship.
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In attitude and aspect formed to be
At once the artist's worship and despair.
--Longfellow.
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Devil worship, Fire worship, Hero worship, etc. See
under Devil, Fire, Hero, etc.
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Hero worship
(gcide) | Hero \He"ro\ (h[=e]"r[-o]), n.; pl. Heroes (h[=e]"r[=o]z). [F.
h['e]ros, L. heros, Gr. "h`rws.]
1. (Myth.) An illustrious man, supposed to be exalted, after
death, to a place among the gods; a demigod, as Hercules.
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2. A man of distinguished valor or enterprise in danger, or
fortitude in suffering; a prominent or central personage
in any remarkable action or event; hence, a great or
illustrious person.
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Each man is a hero and oracle to somebody.
--Emerson.
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3. The principal personage in a poem, story, and the like, or
the person who has the principal share in the transactions
related; as Achilles in the Iliad, Ulysses in the Odyssey,
and Aeneas in the Aeneid.
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The shining quality of an epic hero. --Dryden.
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Hero worship, extravagant admiration for great men, likened
to the ancient worship of heroes.
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Hero worship exists, has existed, and will forever
exist, universally among mankind. --Carlyle.
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hero worship
(wn) | hero worship
n 1: admiration for great men (or their memory) |
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