[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That worships; engaged in worship.
1760–72. H. Brooke, Fool of Qual. (1809), IV. 116. Then will his cross be exalted for an ensign to the circling, bending, and worshipping universe.
1789–96. Morse, Amer. Geog., I. 446. In 1738, there were seven worshipping assemblies in this town [Newport].
1876. Blackie, Lett. to Wife (1909), 240. Either I must speak the truth and offend the worshipping widow, or print lies and prostitute my own intellect.
1880. ‘Mark Twain,’ Tramp Abr., xxxii. 308. She was a brand-new bride,… happy in herself and her grave and worshipping stripling of a husband.
Hence Worshippingly adv., adoringly.
1850. Miss Mulock, Olive, xxiii. Once again I will lie on the floor of the Sistine, and look up worshipingly to Michael the angel.
1891. D. Dormer, Steven Vigil, II. IV. x. 51. Mary’s eyes were continually straying across to rest worshippingly on her sister’s face.
