ETYM Latin adoratio, from adorare: cf. French adoration.
1. The act of admiring strongly; SYN. adulation, idolization, idolisation.
2. Worship given to God alone; SYN. latria.
3. A feeling of profound love and admiration

ETYM Latin veneratio: cf. French vénération.
1. The act of venerating, or the state of being venerated.
2. The highest degree of respect and reverence; respect mingled with awe; a feeling or sentimental excited by the dignity, wisdom, or superiority of a person.

ETYM Old Eng. worshipe, wurthscipe, AS. weorthscipe; weorth worth + -scipe -ship. Related to Worth, and -ship.
(Homonym: warship).
1. A feeling of profound love and admiration; SYN. adoration.
2. The activity of worshipping.
Adoration and service of God or gods. This service involves reverence, awe, and wonder, and may take many different forms.
Worship is rarely an individual act, but usually takes the form of group participation in rituals. In some religious traditions, such as Christianity, the emphasis is on the attitude of the heart as being essential in true worship. In Hinduism, the principle form of worship is the mantra, in which the divine is embodied in sound. + prikaži više