disworship

disworship

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English disworship, disworshipe, dysworschip, equivalent to dis- +‎ worship (noun).

Noun

disworship (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) A deprivation of honour or cause of disgrace.
   • 1645, John Milton, Colasterion

     Observ now the arrogance of a groom, how it will mount. I had writt'n, that common adultery is a thing which the rankest Politician would think it shame and disworship that his Law should countenance.

Etymology 2

From Middle English disworschipen, equivalent to dis- +‎ worship (verb).

Verb

disworship (third-person singular simple present disworships, present participle disworshipping or (US) disworshiping, simple past and past participle disworshipped or (US) disworshiped)

1. To refuse to worship; to treat as unworthy.
   • 1684, Obadiah Walker, A Paraphrase and Annotations Upon All the Epistles of St Paul:

     disworshipping and dishonouring God

References

• disworship in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913