worship
noun
reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
self-worship
-
a word derived from
worship.
Example Sentences
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Self-regard bordering on self-worship and a willingness to bend the truth may have been assets that helped his rise.
From Washington Post ● May 16, 2016
He has the late senator’s gift for exaggeration and self-worship, and he needs the spotlight the way a vampire needs blood.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 4, 2016
James Douglas' excellent essay "Star Lords" on The Awl pegs the rise of Silicon Valley's self-worship to Star Wars fandom run amok.
From The Verge ● Dec. 19, 2015
Different in his service toward God and toward Mankind was the man who had begun life by declaring that happiness came from self-worship.
From Heroes of Modern Europe by Alice Birkhead
But when these free human wills organize falsehood, institute injustice, and establish oppression, they have passed into that mental state where will has been perverted into wilfulness, and self-direction has been exaggerated into self-worship.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 55, May, 1862 by Various
