object of worship

collocation in English

meaningsofobjectandworship

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object
noun
uk
/ˈɒb.dʒɪkt/us
/ˈɑːb.dʒɪkt/
a thing that you can see or touch but that is not usually a living animal, plant, ...
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worship
noun
uk
/ˈwɜː.ʃɪp/us
/ˈwɝː.ʃɪp/
the act of worshipping God or a god, often through praying ...
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(Definition ofobjectandworshipfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofobject of worship

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In typical instances of worship, the worshipper has certain beliefs about theobjectofworship.
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The worshipper regards theobjectofworshipas greater, in some sense, than herself.
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For example, worshippers typically regard theobjectofworshipas being morally superior to themselves.
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To worship something seems to involve judging that theobjectofworshipis more powerful in some respect than oneself.
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Further, and obviously, what they refer to is theobjectofworshipof the religion under consideration.
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No system can be treated as simply anobjectofworship.
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It certainly has, but it is unlikely ever to become anobjectofworship.
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The sculpture has been anobjectofworshipever since.
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Stupas were built enshrining anobjectofworship.
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This doll is anobjectofworshipfor the villagers.
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As we have seen, there is no guarantee that the specificobjectofworshipever is a (or the) member of the kind picked out by the positing description.
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His body and stasis pod became anobjectofworshipfor a mutant tribe.
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It has a long history as anobjectofworshipby people around the mountain.
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The mainobjectofworshipis dated to be about ninth century. 2.
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Theobjectofworshipis esoteric and unique to the temple.
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The written letter replaced the graven image as anobjectofworship.
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The first shrines had no "honden" because the "shintai", orobjectofworship, was the mountain on which they stood.
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The belief in the spiritual nature of natural objects, it has been argued, recognises the tree as anobjectofworship.
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The king, portrayed by state interests as a semi-divine figure, then became through a rigid cultural implementation anobjectofworshipand veneration to his people.
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In some religions with a single powerful deity as theobjectofworship, the death deity is an antagonistic deity against which the primary deity struggles.
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It did not mean that single individuals would be worshipped, but rather the entire potential of the human race and all its achievements would be theobjectofworship.
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