worshipful
Example Sentences
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The painter Frederic Edwin Church would make detailed sketches of plants that might appear in his spectacular, worshipful paintings of the wilderness.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
They don’t have the same kind of worshipful attitude toward the people who, over many years, created Canada.
From Slate • May 8, 2024
On the one hand, those who have persevered for a decade verge on worshipful.
From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2023
Such alarm might come off as the musical theater version of bardolatry, the word coined to describe an overly worshipful attitude toward Shakespeare.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2023
The Yorks had a pleasantly comfortable home life, and Ronnie, overloved and overpraised by his parents and a worshipful younger sister, was the adored center of it.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
