worshipable
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English worschipable, worschypabull, worshepable, worshipable; equivalent to worship + -able.
Adjective[edit]
worshipable (comparative more worshipable, superlative most worshipable)
- Capable of being worshipped; worthy of veneration.
- 1840 May 5, Thomas Carlyle, “Lecture I. The Hero as Divinity. Odin. Paganism: Scandinavian Mythology.”, in On Heroes, Hero-Worship and The Heroic in History, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1840, →OCLC, page 14:
- So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the Paganism of old nations. Nature is still divine, the revelation of the workings of God; the Hero is still worshipable: this, under poor cramped incipient forms, is what all Pagan religions have struggled, as they could, to set forth.
- 1895, William Elliot Griffis, The Religions of Japan, published 2006, →ISBN, page 139:
- The rampant vigor with which Japanese Buddhism began to absorb everything in heaven, earth and sea, which it could make a worshipable object or cause to stand as a Kami or deity to the mind, will be seen as we proceed.
- 1919, George W. Gilmore, “Tantrism: The Newest Hinduism”, in The American Journal of Theology, volume 23, number 4, page 450:
- In addition, Kali, spouse of Shiva, is presented as an object of devotion […] who is "the Image and Embodiment of all the […] Devas." She is multiform, worshipable in each, "Mother of all."
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References[edit]
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed. (1989)