Synonyms:
adored, idolized, idolised, worshipped(a)
Meaning: regarded with deep or rapturous love (especially as if for a god); "adored grandchildren"; "an idolized wife"
Usage examples
They worshipped the sun, moon, and planets.
They brought her up and they just worshipped her.
Their fathers had worshipped in the cold, and their sons might.
I worshipped my mother, but I rarely kissed her or expressed my love for her in words.
We have worshipped Death, the relentless goddess of mercy, under many different names.
His Henrietta Temple, the Henrietta Temple whom he adored, and by whom he had been worshipped!
This god was also worshipped by the military aristocracy of Mitanni, which held sway for a period over Assyria.
Even in the temple at Jerusalem the Babylonians' gods, the host of heaven, were worshipped by certain of the Hebrews.
And I was ready to respond, Armand; I would have allowed myself to be worshipped, and given infinite tenderness in return. . . ."
We have worshipped with the lily, we have meditated with the lotus, we have charged in battle array with the rose and the chrysanthemum.