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Quotation dates: 1409-1436, 1520-1600, 1697
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Wors(c)hipping, vbl. n. Also: vor-, wirschipping, -eping. [ME and e.m.E. wurschypyng (Manning), worschypyng (c1315), wirschiping (14th c.), worshippynge (15th c.)] a. The act of treating (a person) with respect. b. The act of worshipping (a deity, etc.). Chiefly const. of.a. c1409-1436 Kingis Quair § 139.
And wold bene he that to hir worschipping Myght ought availeb. (1) 1561 Q. Kennedy Compendious Ressonyng (ed.) 154/6.
All worschipping of God inventit be the brane of man without expres command of God is idolatrie 1573-1600 Burne Disput. in Cath. Tr. 138/8.
The tempillis quhilk ar dedicat to the vorschipping of God, aucht to be decored vith greit magnificence 1697 Glasgow B. Rec. IV 234.
Their publict and private worshipping of God(b) c1520-c1535 Nisbet Prol. Rom. 330/1.
Thai cum to the wirschipping of ymages 1562-3 Winȝet II 5/15.
The wickit … esteming the wirscheping of God to bee abominatioun 1567 Gude and Godlie Ballatis 201.
His wirschipping of imagerie … And mony vther fals abusioun The Paip hes done inuent(2) 1565 Knox VI 243.
The tenne tribes all degenerate from the true worshipping, and corrupted with idolatry
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