"Let us take the word worship[…]. It is an old English word worth-ship and it meant eminence gained by one's personal qualities of courage or honor. You could not inherit worshipfulness. It was solely due to your own nature and actions. Beginning in the thirteenth century, the word moved into a religious connotation which it did not have originally. And now it has lost its original meaning and has become solely a religious word."
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John Steinbeck, The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976), Appendix, letter to Elizabeth Otis (9 July 1958),
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