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worshipability

English

Etymology

worship +? -ability

Noun

worshipability (uncountable)

  1. Capability of being worshiped; worthiness of veneration.
    • 1836, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 1, p. 378:
      I commend the modern Unitarians for their candour in giving up the possible worshipability of Christ, if not very God.
    • 1988, Norman L. Geisler, Christian Apologetics, ?ISBN, p. 186:
      A God who is totally and completely Other lacks relatability and no doubt, at least to many, he will lack worshipability.
    • 2007, David Lamont Paulsen and Donald W. Musser, Mormonism in Dialogue with Contemporary Christian Theologies, ?ISBN, p. 530:
      Critics of the openness model are quick to contend that any qualification of the notion of God's complete knowledge of the future diminishes his power and worshipability.

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References

  • Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed. (1989).

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worshipable

English

Etymology

worship +? -able

Adjective

worshipable (comparative more worshipable, superlative most worshipable)

  1. Capable of being worshiped; worthy of veneration.
    • 1841, Thomas Carlyle, Lectures on Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History, ch. 1:
      So much of truth . . . do I find in the Paganism of old nations. Nature is still divine, the revelation of the workings of God; the Hero is still worshipable.
    • 1895, William Elliot Griffis, The Religions of Japan (2006 edition), ?ISBN, p. 139:
      The rampant vigor with which Japanese Buddhism began to absorb everything in heaven, earth and sea, which it could make a worshipable object or cause to stand as a Kami or deity to the mind, will be seen as we proceed.
    • 1919, George W. Gilmore, "Tantrism: The Newest Hinduism," The American Journal of Theology, vol. 23, no. 4, p. 450:
      In addition, Kali, spouse of Shiva, is presented as an object of devotion . . . who is "the Image and Embodiment of all the . . . . Devas." She is multiform, worshipable in each, "Mother of all."

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  • worshipability

References

  • Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed. (1989)

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