Cult vs Worship - What's the difference?
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A group of people with a religious, philosophical or cultural identity sometimes viewed as a sect, often existing on the margins of society or exploitative towards its members.
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Devotion to a saint.
(lb) A group of people having an obsession with or intense admiration for a particular activity, idea, person or thing.
Of, or relating to a cult.
Enjoyed by a small, loyal group.
(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.
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To honour with extravagant love and extreme submission, as a lover; to adore; to idolize.
* Carew
To participate in religious ceremonies.
As nouns the difference between cult and worship
is that cult is a group of people with a religious, philosophical or cultural identity sometimes viewed as a sect, often existing on the margins of society or exploitative towards its members while worship is the condition of being worthy; honour, distinction.As an adjective cult
is of, or relating to a cult.As a verb worship is
to reverence (a deity, etc.) with supreme respect and veneration; to perform religious exercises in honour of.cult
English
(wikipedia cult)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* cargo cult * cultic * cultistSee also
* sectAdjective
(-)- a cult horror movie
Usage notes
The term has a positive connotation for groups of art, music, writing, fiction, and fashion devotees, but a negative connotation for new religious, extreme political, questionable therapeutic, and pyramidal business groups.Anagrams
* (l) ----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.