Noun

(en noun)

A homage, especially something in an artwork which has been done in respectful imitation of another artist.

* {{quote-news, year=1991, date=November 29, author=Jonathan Rosenbaum, title=His Master's Vice, work=Chicago Reader citation

, passage=There's a clip from his Pickup on South Street in Scorsese's The King of Comedy, and extended hommages to other Fuller films in Godard's Breathless and Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.) }}

* {{quote-book, year=2002, title=Guido Cavalcanti, author=Maria Luisa Ardizzone, page=150, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=53XLa_9fq_sC&pg=PA150

, passage=It is certainly true that Pound wanted to pay hommage to Guido. }}

* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=April 30, author=Anthony Tommasini, title=Doing Everything but Playing the Music, work=New York Times citation

, passage=The piece is like an hommage to Ives: atmospheric and thickly textured music with multiple elements happening at once. }}

Noun

(en-noun)

(obsolete) The condition of being worthy; honour, distinction.

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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

*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.