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worshipper|ˈwɜːʃɪpə(r)|
Also 4 worschiper, wirshiper, 5 wor-, 6 woorshypper, 7, 9 worshiper.
[f. worship v. + -er1.]
1. One who worships. Freq. const. of (the deity or thing worshipped).
c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 88 Þes wickid ydolatrours, worschiperis of false goddis. 1382― 2 Macc. i. 19 Prestis that thanne weren wirshipers of God. ― Acts xvii. 22 Men of Athenis, bi alle thingis I se ȝou as veyn worschiperis. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 168 God..is a spiryte: and they that be his true worshyppers, must worshyp hym in spiryte. a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) P iij b, He was a greatte louer of his goddis, and woorshypper of theym. 1549Cheke Hurt Sedit. (1569) M j, Such fansies lighted nowe in Papistes, and irreligious mens heades,..delighteth in true worshippers hurt. 1612Two Noble K. v. i. 41 True worshippers of Mars. 1631Gouge God's Arrows iii. §3. 187 This immortall fewde against worshippers of the true God. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) I. 58 The ready imitation of his [Odin's] superstitious worshippers. 1794R. J. Sulivan View Nat. I. 141 Fire, being the purest body in nature, its worshippers supposed that it ought to be honoured with the purest kind of devotion. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xxxii, The good father..is..already a worshipper of the Deity whom I have served. 1843Carlyle Past & Pr. ii. iii, All men, especially all women, are born worshipers. 1868FitzGerald Omar ii, When all the Temple is prepared within, Why lags the drowsy Worshipper outside? 1876J. Parker Paraclete i. vii. 108 The worshippers of Intellect may not know that they are worshippers of God under another name.
b. One engaged in, or taking part in, divine worship.
1825Scott Talism. ix, Did you, or did you not, know any lady amongst that band of worshippers? 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xiii. III. 252 The worshippers were dispersed, beaten, and pelted with snowballs. 1914J. Mackay Ch. Highlands v. 107 Few worshippers could be got together.
2. transf. One who regards a person or thing with feelings akin to worship; a devotee.
1647Cowley Mistr., Her Unbelief 10 Thou sit'st, and dost not see, nor smell, nor hear Thy constant zealous worshipper. 1694tr. Milton's Lett. State 142 All your Enterprizes..in asserting the Liberty of the Gospel and the Worshippers of it. 1788Crowe Levesdon Hill 3 And, vested so, Thou dost appear more gracefully array'd Than Fashion's worshippers. 1792J. Almon Anecd. W. Pitt I. xx. 331 Notwithstanding the state of modern depravity, Truth will continue to have her worshippers. 1805Scott Last Minstr. v. i, When the Poet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper. 1829Lytton Devereux ii. v, A worshipper of the ‘Glass of Fashion’, rather than of ‘the Mould of Form’. 1847S. Hickson in Westm. Rev. XLVII. 60 We can only conclude, worshipper of Shakspere as he is, that he prejudged the question. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xvii. IV. 85 Sarsfield was..too honourable a gentleman to abuse his immense power over the minds of his worshippers. |