misworship

misworship

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ worship

Verb

misworship (third-person singular simple present misworships, present participle misworshipping, simple past and past participle misworshipped)

1. (transitive) To worship wrongly.
   • Bishop Joseph Hall

     The Israelites misworshipped the true God; the Syrians worshipped a false.

Noun

misworship (countable and uncountable, plural misworships)

1. Wrong or false worship; mistaken practices in religion.
   • Carlyle

     Such hideous jungle of misworships.

   • Bishop Joseph Hall

     Might men be their own judges, there would be no heresy in the world, no misworship.