Ìwà lẹ̀sìn.
Character as the ground of a person
Ìpilẹ̀
Ìwà lẹ̀sìn.
Ìtumọ̀ ọ̀rọ̀-sí-ọ̀rọ̀
- Ìwà character lẹ̀sìn is-the-worship.
Ìtumọ̀ Gẹ̀ẹ́sì
"Character is worship."
Orísun náà kò dárúkọ ẹni tí ó túmọ̀ rẹ̀.
Ohun tí ó túmọ̀ sí
What a person is counts as their religious practice.
Ìgbà tí a ń lò ó
Owomoyela: "One's worship and prayers are only as efficacious as one's character is good"
Àkíyèsí lórí ìtumọ̀
Two words, and the compression is the force. Read alongside entry 3 it produces a tight pair: character is the god, and character is the worship of it. Ẹ̀sìn here is religion or worship, and is a different word from ẹṣin, horse, which differs in tone and in the vowel of the first syllable.