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2017, James C. Howell, “Worship and being Worshipful”, in Worshipful: Living Sunday Morning All Week, Eugene, Or.: Cascade Books, Wipf and Stock, →ISBN, page 2:
We do want to worship in a worshipful way, not just going through the motions, being entertained, or catching up with friends, but "in spirit and in truth, lost in wonder, love and praise." And then when we're not in church, we really long to live a worshipful life, to discover the comforts and challenges of God out in the real world, […]
1592, Tho Nashe, “The Foure Letters Confuted”, in Strange Newes, of the Intercepting Certaine Letters and a Convoy of Verses,, London: Iohn Danter,, →OCLC; republished in J Payne Collier, editor, Illustrations of Early English Literature (Miscellaneous Tracts; Temp. Eliz. and Jac. I), volume II, London: Privately printed, , →OCLC, page 30:
owe Dorbell comes to bee doctour none aſks, but doctour hee muſt bee to make him right worſhipfull.
Now for a sealing and making fast of this solemn covenant between you I see no likelier rede than that ye all join with me here this day in good friendship to forget your quarrels in drinking of the arvale of King Gorice XI., than whom hath reigned none mightier nor more worshipful in all this world, and thereafter depart in peace to your native lands.
1404, Sharon Turner, “Specimens of the Progress of the English Language and Prose Composition, from the Writings or Speeches of the Various Classes of Society”, in The History of England during the Middle Ages. In Four Volumes, 5th edition, volume IV (Containing the Conclusion of the Literary History of England), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, published 1853, →OCLC, footnote 36, page 566:
To my most dredfull and Sovereigne lige Lord, I youre humble lige beseche to yowre Hyness to have in remembrance my comyng to yowre worshipful presence into York of my free will, […]
1769 December 15, John Nicholl, comp., Some Account of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers. Compiled, from Their Own Records and Other Authentic Sources of Information, London: John Bowyer Nichols and Son, published 1851, →OCLC, page 383:
At a Common Council, held in the Chamber of the Guildhall of the city of London, on Friday the 15th day of December, 1769, it was ordered, that the thanks of this Court be given to the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers for their generosity in giving up part of their ground on Snow Hill for the benefit of the public highway.
1791 February, “Monthly Catalogue, for February, 1791. [Art. 49. The Philosophy of Masons. In Several Epistles from Egypt to a Nobleman. 12mo. pp. 263. 3s. sewed. Ridgway. 1790. (book review)”, in The Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal, Enlarged, volume IV, London: Printed for R Griffiths; and sold by T. Becket, in Pall Mall, →OCLC, page 235:
The writer of theſe epiſtles is ſome philoſopher of the once well known Peter Annett's ſchool; who, wiſhing, as we may conclude, to try a revival of his tenets, without delivering them in his own proper character, has done the worſhipful fraternity of Free Maſons, the honour of imputing them to an ancient colony of the brethren, which he has diſcovered in a fertile ſpot, inſulated in the remote boſom of the ſandy deſerts of Africa.
[…] Mowbray, as Duke Theseus, stepped before the screen, and announcing the conclusion of the dramatic pictures which they had had the honour to present before the worshipful company, thanked the spectators for the very favourable reception which they have afforded; […]
1875 May 7, “”, in The Worshipful Company of Needlemakers of the City of London. With a List of the Court of Assistants and Livery, : offices: 1 Church Court, Clement's Lane, E.C., published 1876, →OCLC, page 78:
Your Worshipful Master has been pleased to speak of me as possessing some powers of speech, but (added his lordship in tones of deep emotion) I have none.
1934 November, Theodor Haecker, “Fate”, in A. W. Wheen, transl., Virgil, Father of the West (Essays in Order; no. 14), London: Sheed & Ward, →OCLC, page 91:
But the Stoics and the poet Virgil came near to the Christian belief that God is light, and everlasting light. And is not light also ‘mystery’? Yes, unfathomable, worshipful! Lumen adorabile!
1957, C A Campbell, “Lecture XI: The Concept of Religion”, in On Selfhood and Godhood: The Gifford Lectures Delivered at the University of St. Andrews during Sessions 1953–54 and 1954–55 Revised and Expanded (Muirhead Library of Philosophy; 90), London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd; New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; reprinted as On Selfhood and Godhood (Philosophy of Religion; 2), London: Routledge, 2002, →ISBN, part 2, second course (On Goodhood), paragraph 6, page 241:
The worshipful, then, whatever else it may be, is something mysterious and supernatural. But of course the converse is not true. What is mysterious or supernatural need not be worshipful.
1776, , Charters Destructive to Liberty and Property: Demonstrated by the Principles and Practices of Corporation Patriots, London: Sold by S. Crowder in Pater-noster-Row, →OCLC, pages 19–20:
I was attended to the Guild-hall by the mayor, the chamberlain and ſome more worſhipfuls; but when I entered the grand magazine of imposition, I was prejudiced in favour of their modeſty in concealing of it—the floor being ſtrewed with fragments of obſolete records, cobwebs and ſpiders in all quarters, […]
Damn the worshipful lady, and all other worshipfuls! There’ll be no more worshipfuls here! I’ll give way to no one before my own shop!
1892, James Brighouse, “The Unfolding of the Scroll of Time. The Third Year of God.”, in The Voice of the Seventh Angel, Proclaiming the End of Time! the Resurrection of the Dead! the Day of Final Judgment! and the Rule of Righteousness and Peace!, volume I (Five Parts), South Cottonwood, Ut.: , →OCLC, part IV, page 10:
Again there are too many lawyers and doctors and priests and elders and bishops and cardinals and worshipfuls, and we shall now proclaim that the time has come for the wise to cast these idols to the moles and bats, […]
