#worship

• Akathistier — A liturgical service book or devotional compendium compiling a systematic collection of akathists dedicated to various feasts of the Savior, the Mother of God, and saints throughout the liturgical year. The akathistier is utilized both by the clergy in public divine worship and by lay faithful for their daily private or family prayer rule.
• Adore regionally — A regional form or obsolete phonetic variant of the verb 'adora'; to love endlessly, value beyond measure, offer deep veneration, or worship a divinity or a loved one. Found in local dialects or old ecclesiastical texts, this term reflects a pronunciation specific to certain Romanian dialectal areas before literary standardization.
• To adore — To render a religious cult to the supreme divinity; to honor with the highest degree of mystical veneration. In a profane, secular, or everyday sense, the term means to love excessively, demonstrating a profound passion, blind admiration, or extreme attachment to a person, ideal, artwork, or activity.
• Female adorant — A female representation in sculpture, painting, or relief, captured in a ritualistic attitude of verification, prayer, or worship before an altar or divinity. As an adjective, the term describes a silhouette, manifestation, or posture characteristic of a woman rendering a mystical cult or sacred homage.
• Adoration — The act of adoring and its result; the supreme manifestation of religious worship owed exclusively to the divinity, characterized by deep piety and absolute submission. In a secular or psychological context, the term denotes a state of passionate love, boundless admiration, or profound and idealized attachment toward a person or symbol.
• Adored — Descriptive of a person, divinity, or ideal that is the object of profound love, religious veneration, or extreme admiration. As a qualifying adjective, it highlights the supreme emotional value granted to the loved being, often used as a term of endearment.
• Adored — Descriptive of a woman, a female divinity, or an idealized value that is the object of a passionate love, mystical devotion, or boundless admiration. Frequently used as a vocative or term of endearment, the word highlights a supreme emotional esteem, placing the loved one in a higher plane of respect and attachment.
• Adoration — An archaic, literary, or old formal variant of the noun 'adorație', denoting the supreme manifestation of religious worship owed to divinity or a state of intense, deeply idealized, and passionate love. Although replaced in the modern lexicon by the shorter form, the term is preserved in historical biblical translations, old liturgical texts, and early romantic poetry.
• Female worshipper — A woman who renders religious worship to a divinity or demonstrates a profound veneration toward sacred elements. In everyday life or cultural contexts, the term denotes an enthusiastic admirer, an ardent female supporter, or a woman who nurtures a passionate and idealized love for a celebrity, leader, artwork, or doctrine.
• To adulate — To admire excessively, blindly, and often servilely a person, a deity, or an idea; to flatter beyond measure, to praise extravagantly, or to display a fanatical cult toward an individual, idol, or political leader. In modern sociological terms, the verb describes the behavior of masses idealizing public figures, celebrities, or authoritative personas, completely ignoring their flaws through expressions of extreme devotion.
• Androlatress — A person (especially female) who exhibits a blind, exaggerated, and often pathological admiration for men or who unconditionally venerates masculinity and its attributes. In the context of structural social analysis, the term describes a behavior of voluntary psychological subordination to male authority, elevated to the status of a cult.
• Androlatry — An exaggerated veneration, idolization, or pathological cult of men or characteristics specific to masculinity. As a structural social phenomenon, this manifestation places the male element in a sacred or intangible position within the value system, often generating major imbalances in interpersonal and community relations.
• Androlatrous — A person who exhibits a blind, exaggerated, and often pathological admiration for men or who unconditionally venerates masculinity and its attributes. In the context of structural social analysis, the term describes a behavior or predisposition of voluntary psychological subordination to male authority, elevated to the status of a cult.
• Angel-worshiper — A female individual who manifests an exaggerated admiration, excessive devotion, or a mystical cult toward angels. As an adjective, it describes a woman, attitude, or writing characterized by angelolatry, meaning the tendency to praise and worship angelic hosts, sometimes to the point of deviating from traditional religious dogmas centered exclusively on the divinity.
• Angelolatry — The cult, veneration, or excessive and exaggerated worship of angels, sometimes manifested in certain mystical currents or religious communities. From a theological point of view, this practice is viewed with reluctance by official Christian dogmas, being considered a form of spiritual deviation because it violates the principle that supreme worship (latreia) must be directed exclusively to God, while angels can only be venerated as divine servants.
• Angel-worshiper — A male individual who practices angelolatry, manifesting an excessive devotion, a mystical attachment, or an exaggerated cult toward the hosts of angels. As an adjective, it describes a behavior, a person, or a non-standard religious text characterized by the praise and worship of celestial entities beyond the limits allowed by traditional dogma.
• Animism — A primitive form of religion or archaic belief system that attributes an individual soul, consciousness, and will of its own to all elements of the surrounding nature, including inanimate objects, plants, animals, and meteorological phenomena. In a philosophical sense, the term can also refer to the doctrine that considers the soul as the sole and absolute principle of all organic and intellectual life.
• Animist — A person who practices or adheres to animism; a follower of archaic beliefs that attribute an individual soul and consciousness to elements of nature. As an adjective, the term describes a ritual, community, myth, or philosophical and religious concept characterized by the veneration of spirits hidden in inanimate objects, plants, animals, or meteorological phenomena.
• Anthropolater female — A woman who idolizes or excessively worships man or human nature; a follower of anthropolatry. As an adjective, it describes a person, belief, or doctrine that practices the cult of man or attributes divine qualities to a human being, a phenomenon historically encountered in the deification of monarchs or in certain radical philosophical currents.
• Anthropolatry — The ritualistic or conceptual adoration, deification, or worship of man, a human being, or human nature in general; the cult of man. In theology, the term often denotes a heresy or dogmatic deviation consisting of rendering divine honors to an earthly creature, whereas in modern philosophy, it defines radical forms of secular humanism.