Definition of Self-worship

1. Noun. The worship of yourself.

Exact synonyms: Autolatry, Idiolatry
Generic synonyms: Worship

Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-worship

self-tapping screw
self-tapping screws
self-taught
self-taught art
self-titled
self-torment
self-torture
self-treatment
self-treatments
self-uned
self-view
self-whispered
self-will
self-willed
self-worship (current term)
self-worth
self acceptance
self administration
self antigen
self bow
self care
self cloning
self colour
self colours
self concept
self control
self disclosure

Literary usage of Self-worship

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
""self will and self worship" which Bishop Stubbs justly attributes to her father. And, in the well- weighed words of Hallam, " she was too deeply imbued ..."

2. Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne (1903)
"... fun, and dramatic animation—A philosophical library in itself— Amusing appanage of his own book—Oily and voluble sanctimoniousness—Self - worship of the ..."

3. Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne (1903)
"... fun, and dramatic animation—A philosophical library in itself— Amusing appanage of his own book—Oily and voluble sanctimoniousness—Self - worship of the ..."

4. Half Truths and the Truth: Lectures on the Origin and Development of by Jacob Merrill Manning (1872)
"... OF SELF -WORSHIP. THE pantheist, holding that all objects in the universe manifest its one divine essence, will find that essence more especially amid ..."

5. Interludes and Poems by Lascelles ABERCROMBIE (1908)
"When you have thus grown strong (and you shall find Mercy the prop to make a soul most strong), Then you shall join me in this mystery, self-worship, ..."

6. Interludes and Poems by Lascelles Abercrombie (1908)
"For here I lift up to the world a token, A burning type of high self-love, the world's Instance of the self-worship's ritual. I have sinned the unforgivable ..."

7. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1887)
"The great dream, that the world was to put its seal on his hungry self-worship, ends in blank disappointment. All this is worked out into the details of a ..."

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