Acclaim vs Worship - What's the difference?
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(archaic) To shout; to call out.
To shout approval; to express great approval.
* 1911 , (Saki), The Chronicles of Clovis
*:The design, when finally developed, was a slight disappointment to Monsieur Deplis, who had suspected Icarus of being a fortress taken by Wallenstein in the Thirty Years' War, but he was more than satisfied with the execution of the work, which was acclaimed by all who had the privilege of seeing it as Pincini's masterpiece.
(rare) To salute or praise with great approval; to compliment; to applaud; to welcome enthusiastically.
* A glad acclaiming train. - Thomson
(obsolete) To claim.
To declare by acclamations.
* While the shouting crowd / Acclaims thee king of traitors. - Smollett
(Canada, politics) To elect to an office by having no opposition.
(obsolete) The condition of being worthy; honour, distinction.
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*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.3:
*:Then he forth on his journey did proceede, / To seeke adventures which mote him befall, / And win him worship through his warlike deed.
The devotion accorded to a deity or to a sacred object.
The religious ceremonies that express this devotion.
*(John Tillotson) (1630-1694)
*:The worship of God is an eminent part of religion, and prayer is a chief part of religious worship.
(by extension) The ardent love of a something.
An object of worship.
*(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (1807-1882)
*:In attitude and aspect formed to be / At once the artist's worship and despair.
Honour; respect; civil deference.
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:of which great worth and worship may be won
*(Bible), (w) xiv. 10
*:Then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee.
To reverence (a deity, etc.) with supreme respect and veneration; to perform religious exercises in honour of.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
To honour with extravagant love and extreme submission, as a lover; to adore; to idolize.
* Carew
To participate in religious ceremonies.
Acclaim is a related term of worship.
As nouns the difference between acclaim and worship
is that acclaim is (poetic) an acclamation; a shout of applause while worship is (british) a form of address of a mayor and other dignitaries.As a verb acclaim
is (archaic|transitive) to shout; to call out.acclaim
English
Etymology 1
* First attested in the early 14th century. * (to applaud) First attested in the 1630's. * From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)Derived terms
* acclaimable * acclaimerEtymology 2
* First attested in 1667.Synonyms
* See alsoAnagrams
* English words prefixed with ad-worship
English
(wikipedia worship)Noun
(en-noun)- I will be on horsbak said the knyght / thenne was Arthur wrothe and dressid his sheld toward hym with his swerd drawen / whan the knyght sawe that / he a lyghte / for hym thought no worship to haue a knyght at suche auaille he to be on horsbak and he on foot and so he alyght & dressid his sheld vnto Arthur
Derived terms
* freedom of worship * Her Worship * His Worship * house of worship * place of worship * Worship * worshipability * worshipable * worshipful * Worshipful Master * worshipfully * worshipfulness * worshipped * worshipping * worshippingly * worshipworthy * Your WorshipSynonyms
* adoration * reverence * idolatryVerb
- God is to be worshipped .
- When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones.
- With bended knees I daily worship her.
- We worship at the church down the road.