{
  "id": "worship.emotional",
  "term": "worship",
  "sense": "emotional",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 15,
  "arena": "social",
  "domain": "religion",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "act of love toward a thing",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "act.deed",
      "love.emotional"
    ],
    "interaction": "the love toward the thing is done as an act",
    "novel_properties": [
      "devotional reverence",
      "sacred dedication"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Fans guarded the vinyl of Joy Division's 'Unknown Pleasures' album, preserving its grooves for decades after release.",
      "domain": "culture"
    },
    {
      "text": "Engineers at CERN maintain the Large Hadron Collider's superconducting magnets at -271.3°C, keeping them operational for particle collisions.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Monks in Tibet hand-copy the Kangyur scriptures in ink on lokta paper, continuing a 1,300-year-old practice.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "act.deed",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "worship is a kind of act"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "church.religious"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "worship",
    "worshiped",
    "worshiping",
    "worshipped",
    "worshipping",
    "worships"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-worship.emotional"
}