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English
Etymology
From mis- + worship.
Pronunciation
Verb
misworship (third-person singular simple present misworships, present participle misworshipping or (US) misworshiping, simple past and past participle misworshipped or (US) misworshiped)
- (transitive) To worship (a deity, etc.) wrongly.
1612–1626, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in , volume (please specify |volume=II, V, or VI), London, →OCLC:The Israelites misworshipped the true God; the Syrians worshipped a false.
Noun
misworship (countable and uncountable, plural misworships)
- False or wrong worship; mistaken practices in religion.
1612–1626, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in , volume (please specify |volume=II, V, or VI), London, →OCLC:Might men be their own judges, there would be no heresy in the world, no misworship.
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 4:Such hideous inextricable jungle of misworships, misbeliefs, men, made as we are, did actually hold by, and live at home in.