Worshipped

How to spell worshipped

10 letters · 2 syllables

How to pronounce worshipped

Say the part in capitals loudest.

What does worshipped mean?

1. verbShowed reverence, adoration, or intense devotion toward a deity, person, or thing in the past.

Worshipped in a sentence

• The ancient settlers worshipped the sun as a giver of life.

• Throughout his childhood he worshipped his older brother and copied everything he did.

Where does worshipped come from?

Language of origin: Germanic

This is the past tense and past participle of 'worship', a word that goes right back to Old English weorthscipe, formed from weorth, meaning 'worth' or 'worthy', and the suffix -scipe, the ancestor of our modern '-ship'. So at its root it literally meant 'the condition of being worthy', or worthiness, and it was first used of the honour and respect due to a person of high standing, not only of religious devotion. Over the medieval centuries the sense narrowed toward the reverence shown to God or to idols, though the older social meaning survives in the British courtesy title 'Your Worship' for magistrates and mayors. When the verb takes its past ending, British and most international usage doubles the final p to give 'worshipped', following the pattern of stressing how the consonant closes the short vowel; American style often allows the single-p 'worshiped', which is exactly why the doubled form is worth fixing in memory.

How the word is built

• worship (from Old English weorthscipe: worthiness)
• -ed (past tense/participle); note the doubled p before the suffix

British and American spelling

Worshipped is the British spelling. American English spells it worshiped.