"worshipful" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1934 November, Theodor Haecker, “Fate”, in A. W. Wheen, transl., Virgil, Father of the West (Essays in Order; no. 14), London: Sheed & Ward, →OCLC, page 91",
          "text": "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!",
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          "ref": "1404, Sharon Turner, “Specimens of the Progress of the English Language and Prose Composition, from the Writings or Speeches of the Various Classes of Society”, in The History of England during the Middle Ages. … In Four Volumes, 5th edition, volume IV (Containing the Conclusion of the Literary History of England), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, published 1853, →OCLC, footnote 36, page 566",
          "text": "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, […]",
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          "ref": "1769 December 15, John Nicholl, comp., Some Account of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers. Compiled, from Their Own Records and Other Authentic Sources of Information, London: John Bowyer Nichols and Son, published 1851, →OCLC, page 383",
          "text": "At a Common Council, held in the Chamber of the Guildhall of the city of London, on Friday the 15th day of December, 1769, it was ordered, that the thanks of this Court be given to the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers for their generosity in giving up part of their ground on Snow Hill for the benefit of the public highway.",
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          "text": "The writer of theſe epiſtles is ſome philoſopher of the once well known Peter Annett's ſchool; who, wiſhing, as we may conclude, to try a revival of his tenets, without delivering them in his own proper character, has done the worſhipful fraternity of Free Maſons, the honour of imputing them to an ancient colony of the brethren, which he has diſcovered in a fertile ſpot, inſulated in the remote boſom of the ſandy deſerts of Africa.",
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          "ref": "1776, [Thomas Roch], Charters Destructive to Liberty and Property: Demonstrated by the Principles and Practices of Corporation Patriots, London: Sold by S. Crowder in Pater-noster-Row, →OCLC, pages 19–20",
          "text": "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 quarters, […]",
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          "ref": "1889 June, Edwin Lassetter Bynner, “The Begum’s Daughter”, in The Atlantic Monthly. A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, volume LXIII, number CCCLXXX, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; The Riverside Press, Cambridge [Mass.], →OCLC, chapter V, page 832, column 2",
          "text": "Damn the worshipful lady, and all other worshipfuls! There'll be no more worshipfuls here! I'll give way to no one before my own shop!",
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          "ref": "1892, James Brighouse, “The Unfolding of the Scroll of Time. The Third Year of God.”, in The Voice of the Seventh Angel, Proclaiming the End of Time! the Resurrection of the Dead! the Day of Final Judgment! and the Rule of Righteousness and Peace!, volume I (Five Parts), South Cottonwood, Ut.: [s.n.], →OCLC, part IV, page 10",
          "text": "Again there are too many lawyers and doctors and priests and elders and bishops and cardinals and worshipfuls, and we shall now proclaim that the time has come for the wise to cast these idols to the moles and bats, […]",
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        "(obsolete) One who is respected or worshipped."
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          "ref": "1934 November, Theodor Haecker, “Fate”, in A. W. Wheen, transl., Virgil, Father of the West (Essays in Order; no. 14), London: Sheed & Ward, →OCLC, page 91",
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          "ref": "1957, C[harles] A[rthur] Campbell, “Lecture XI: The Concept of Religion”, in On Selfhood and Godhood: The Gifford Lectures Delivered at the University of St. Andrews during Sessions 1953–54 and 1954–55 Revised and Expanded (Muirhead Library of Philosophy; 90), London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd; New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; reprinted as On Selfhood and Godhood (Philosophy of Religion; 2), London: Routledge, 2002, part 2, second course (On Goodhood), paragraph 6, page 241",
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          "text": "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, […]",
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          "text": "At a Common Council, held in the Chamber of the Guildhall of the city of London, on Friday the 15th day of December, 1769, it was ordered, that the thanks of this Court be given to the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers for their generosity in giving up part of their ground on Snow Hill for the benefit of the public highway.",
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          "text": "The writer of theſe epiſtles is ſome philoſopher of the once well known Peter Annett's ſchool; who, wiſhing, as we may conclude, to try a revival of his tenets, without delivering them in his own proper character, has done the worſhipful fraternity of Free Maſons, the honour of imputing them to an ancient colony of the brethren, which he has diſcovered in a fertile ſpot, inſulated in the remote boſom of the ſandy deſerts of Africa.",
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        {
          "ref": "1776, [Thomas Roch], Charters Destructive to Liberty and Property: Demonstrated by the Principles and Practices of Corporation Patriots, London: Sold by S. Crowder in Pater-noster-Row, →OCLC, pages 19–20",
          "text": "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 quarters, […]",
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          "ref": "1889 June, Edwin Lassetter Bynner, “The Begum’s Daughter”, in The Atlantic Monthly. A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, volume LXIII, number CCCLXXX, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; The Riverside Press, Cambridge [Mass.], →OCLC, chapter V, page 832, column 2",
          "text": "Damn the worshipful lady, and all other worshipfuls! There'll be no more worshipfuls here! I'll give way to no one before my own shop!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1892, James Brighouse, “The Unfolding of the Scroll of Time. The Third Year of God.”, in The Voice of the Seventh Angel, Proclaiming the End of Time! the Resurrection of the Dead! the Day of Final Judgment! and the Rule of Righteousness and Peace!, volume I (Five Parts), South Cottonwood, Ut.: [s.n.], →OCLC, part IV, page 10",
          "text": "Again there are too many lawyers and doctors and priests and elders and bishops and cardinals and worshipfuls, and we shall now proclaim that the time has come for the wise to cast these idols to the moles and bats, […]",
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        "(obsolete) One who is respected or worshipped."
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    "Walters Art Museum"
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