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Worship vs Mourn - What's the difference?

worship | mourn |

As nouns the difference between worship and mourn

is that worship is (british) a form of address of a mayor and other dignitaries while mourn is sorrow, grief.

As a verb mourn is

to express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death).

worship

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (obsolete) The condition of being worthy; honour, distinction.
  • *:
  • 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.
  • 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 Worship

    Synonyms

    * adoration * reverence * idolatry

    Verb

  • To reverence (a deity, etc.) with supreme respect and veneration; to perform religious exercises in honour of.
  • * Shakespeare
  • God is to be worshipped .
  • * Milton
  • When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones.
  • To honour with extravagant love and extreme submission, as a lover; to adore; to idolize.
  • * Carew
  • With bended knees I daily worship her.
  • To participate in religious ceremonies.
  • We worship at the church down the road.

    mourn

    English

    Alternative forms

    * morne

    Verb

  • To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death).
  • * Bible, Genesis xxiii. 2
  • Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
  • * Shakespeare
  • We mourn' in black; why ' mourn we not in blood?

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Sorrow, grief.
  • *:
  • *:Anone after ther cam balen / and whan he sawe kynge Arthur / he alyght of his hors / and cam to the kynge on foote / and salewed hym / by my hede saide Arthur ye be welcome / Sire ryght now cam rydynge this way a knyght makynge grete moorne / for what cause I can not telle
  • A ring fitted upon the head of a lance to prevent wounding an adversary in tilting.
  • See also

    * grieve * lament * sorrow

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