worship, your

worship, your
   ‘Worship’ now carries primarily a religious association, but the word originally referred to someone worthy of respect and honour. ‘Worthy-ship’ would in fact be a better indication of what the title ‘your Worship’ implies.
   It is used in Britain to a magistrate or mayor in formal circumstances, though the former would often be called ‘sir’ or ‘madam’, the latter ‘Mr’ or ‘Madam Mayor’. Dickens has a character in The Pickwick Papers whose accent transforms ‘your Worship’ into ‘your Wash-up’.
   In The Limits of Love, by Frederic Raphael, the term is made insulting by deliberately using it incorrectly to a clergyman. Thomas Hardy, in The Mayor of Casterbridge, has a country bumpkin use the incorrect form ‘your worshipful’. It is not used vocatively, but the variant ‘Your Washout’ is suggested in The Dream of Fair Women, by Henry Williamson.

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