religion vs worship

religion

verb
  • Engage in religious practice. 

  • To make sacred or symbolic; sanctify. 

  • Indoctrinate into a specific religion. 

noun
  • Rituals and actions associated with religious beliefs, but considered apart from them. 

  • Any practice to which someone or some group is seriously devoted. 

  • Belief in a spiritual or metaphysical reality (often including at least one deity), accompanied by practices or rituals pertaining to the belief. 

  • A particular system of such belief, and the rituals and practices proper to it. 

  • The way of life committed to by monks and nuns. 

worship

verb
  • To participate in religious ceremonies. 

  • To reverence (a deity, etc.) with supreme respect and veneration; to perform religious exercises in honour of. 

  • To honour with extravagant love and extreme submission, as a lover; to adore; to idolize. 

noun
  • An object of worship. 

  • Ardent love. 

  • The adoration owed to God alone, as greater than the veneration that may be accorded to figures such as saints. 

  • The devotion accorded to a deity or to a sacred object. 

  • Honour; respect; civil deference. 

  • Used as a title or term of address for various officials, including magistrates 

  • The religious ceremonies that express this devotion. 

  • Voluntary, utter submission; voluntary, utter deference. 

How often have the words religion and worship occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )