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To: Alex Murphy

Dictionary.com gives both “venerate” and “adore” as synonyms for “worship,” and in fact the word itself comes from the OE meaning “to render honor to”. So your point is, I take it, that the original poster used the word “worship” carelessly, when he should have used “adore”?


15 posted on 03/25/2009 12:15:01 PM PDT by Campion
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To: Campion
Dictionary.com gives both “venerate” and “adore” as synonyms for “worship,” and in fact the word itself comes from the OE meaning “to render honor to”.

I don't usually use Dictionary.com to define Catholic terms of worship, so I'll have to take your word that it carries an imprimatur.

So your point is, I take it, that the original poster used the word “worship” carelessly, when he should have used “adore”?

Are you suggesting that Cardinal Bacci is FReeping, three decades after his death?

16 posted on 03/25/2009 12:22:44 PM PDT by Alex Murphy ( "Every country has the government it deserves" - Joseph Marie de Maistre)
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