# worship (emotional)

act of love toward a thing

- Computed level: L15 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: religion  ·  Arena: social

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [act](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-act.deed), [love](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-love.emotional)

**Through:** the love toward the thing is done as an act

**Novel properties:**
- devotional reverence
- sacred dedication

## Examples
- Fans guarded the vinyl of Joy Division's 'Unknown Pleasures' album, preserving its grooves for decades after release. *(culture)*
- Engineers at CERN maintain the Large Hadron Collider's superconducting magnets at -271.3°C, keeping them operational for particle collisions. *(engineering)*
- Monks in Tibet hand-copy the Kangyur scriptures in ink on lokta paper, continuing a 1,300-year-old practice. *(institutions)*

## Used by
- [church](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-church.religious) (L17)

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