worshipful

adjective more worshipful · most worshipful

1. Tending to worship; showing reverence. We do want to worship in a worshipful way, not just going through the motions, being entertained, or catching up with friends, but "in spirit and in truth, lost in wonder, love and praise." And then when we're not in church, we really long to live a worshipful life, to discover the comforts and chal
2. archaic Entitled to dignity or respect; distinguished, respected, illustrious. [H]owe Dorbell comes to bee doctour none aſks, but doctour hee muſt bee to make him right worſhipfull.
3. UK Used as respectful form of address or honorific title for a person or body of persons, now especially in the name of a livery company. To my most dredfull and Sovereigne lige Lord, I youre humble lige beseche to yowre Hyness to have in remembrance my comyng to yowre worshipful presence into York of my free will, […]
4. Worthy of worship. But the Stoics and the poet Virgil came near to the Christian belief that God is light, and everlasting light. And is not light also ‘mystery’? Yes, unfathomable, worshipful! Lumen adorabile!

Similar: respectful, reverent, reverential, worshippy · Opposite: irreverent, unworshipful

noun worshipfuls

1. obsolete One who is respected or distinguished. I was attended to the Guild-hall by the mayor, the chamberlain and ſome more worſhipfuls; but when I entered the grand magazine of imposition, I was prejudiced in favour of their modeſty in concealing of it—the floor being ſtrewed with fragments of obſolete records, cobwebs and ſpiders in all quarte
2. obsolete A magistrate (specifically).