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Bottom line is that catholics worship Mary as demonstrated by their actions. Sorry you and other catholics don't like it.

Sorry you like to play semantic games. From Google:

wor·ship

ˈwərSHəp/Submit
noun

1. the feeling or expression of reverence and adoration for a deity.
"the worship of God"

verb

1. show reverence and adoration for (a deity); honor with religious rites.
"the Maya built jungle pyramids to worship their gods"

You choose to extrapolate from your own ill-informed observations the interior motivations and rites of others with whom you disagree on theological issues. Please feel free to play games with words all you want, and twist them to fit your prejudices. By doing so however, you will only demonstrate to those of us who know, how little you truly understand.

1. the feeling or expression of reverence and adoration for a deity. "the worship of God"

Please explain how Mary is not a Romanist deity?

Please tell us how we would know when a Romanist is worshiping and when he is "venerating " when watching him?

Full Definition of WORSHIP

1 chiefly British : a person of importance —used as a title for various officials (as magistrates and some mayors) 2
: reverence offered a divine being or supernatural power; also : an act of expressing such reverence
3 : a form of religious practice with its creed and ritual
4 : extravagant respect or admiration for or devotion to an object of esteem

Words and deeds don’t always match. See my post 124 on this subject. It includes excerpts from Alphonse Liguori’s “The Glories of Mary,” including the following:

***For as the moon enlightens and benefits the lowest creatures on earth, so does Mary enlighten and succor the most unworthy sinners” (”Pulchra ut luna, quia pulchrum est benefacere indignis”). And though the moon, says another writer, receives all its light from the sun, yet it works quicker than the sun; “for what this latter does in a year the moon does in a month” (”Quod sol facit in anno, luna facit in mense”—Joann. A. S. Gem. Summ. l. 1, c. 3). For this reason St. Anselm says “that we often more quickly obtain what we ask by calling on the name of Mary than by invoking that of Jesus” (”Velocior est nonnunquam salus, memorato nominee Mariae, quam invocato nominee Jesu”—De Excel. V. c. 6).***

***”But now,” says Arnold of Chartres, “that we have the Son as our mediator with the Eternal Father, and the Mother as a mediatress with the Son, we have full access, and can go to God with entire confidence and hope for every good thing. “How,” he goes on to say, “can the Father refuse to hear the Son who shows him his side and wounds, the marks of his sufferings endured for sinners; and how can the Son refuse to hear his Mother when she shows him her bosom and the breast that gave him suck?” (”Securum accessum jam habet homo ad Deum, ubi Mediatorem causae suae Filium habet ante Patrem, et ante Filium Matrem. Christus Patri ostendit latus et vulnera; Maria Christo pectus et ubera”—De Laud. B. V.). St. Peter Chrysologus says, “that a gentle maiden having lodged a God in her womb. Asks as its price peace for the world, salvation for those who are lost, and life for the dead” (”Una Puella sic Deum sui pectoris capit hospitio, ut pacem terries, coelis gloriam, salutem perditis, vitam mortuis, pro ipsa domi exigat pensione”—Serm. 140).***

http://www.marys-touch.com/Glories/ChIX.htm