Adoration

//ˌæ.dəˈɹeɪ.ʃən// noun

noun ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An act of religious worship. countable

    "We incessantly look forward, and endeavour, by prayers, adoration, and sacrifice, to appease those unknown powers, whom we find, by experience, so able to afflict and oppress us."

  2. 2
    the worship given to God alone wordnet
  3. 3
    Admiration or esteem. uncountable

    "[…] if she can create the sense of beauty in people whose lives have been sordid and ugly...she is worthy of all your adoration, worthy of the adoration of the world."

  4. 4
    the act of admiring strongly wordnet
  5. 5
    The act of adoring; loving devotion or fascination. uncountable

    "He adored Sorais quite as earnestly as Sir Henry adored Nyleptha, and his adoration had not altogether prospered."

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  1. 6
    a feeling of profound love and admiration wordnet
  2. 7
    The selection of a pope by acclamation and before any formal ballot (excluded as a voting method in 1621 by Pope Gregory XV). countable, historical, uncountable
  3. 8
    Worship of Christ in the Eucharistic host in the Catholic Church, often while exposed in a monstrance. countable, uncountable

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worshipadmirationaffectionagapeamorapotheosis

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"Fadil's love and adoration only fed Layla's ego."

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French adoration, from Latin adōrātiō, adōrātiōnem (“worship, adoration”), from adōrō (“beseech; adore, worship”), from ad (“to, towards”) + ōrō (“beg”). From adore + -ation.

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