English
Etymology
From Lation adoratio f, from adorare, adore
Pronunciation
Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-eɪ��n|-eɪ��n
Noun
en-noun
- countable An act of religious worship.
#*1779 (pub.), s:Author:David Hume|David Hume, s:Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion/Part 10|Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
#*: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.
- uncountable admiration|Admiration or esteem.
#*1890, s:Author:Oscar Wilde|Oscar Wilde, s:The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)/Chapter 5|The Picture of Dorian Gray
#*:...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.
- uncountable The act of adoring; loving devotion or fascination.
#*1887, s:Author:H. Rider Haggard|H. Rider Haggard, s:Allan Quatermain/Chapter XVI|Allan Quatermain
#*:He adored Sorais quite as earnestly as Sir Henry adored Nyleptha, and his adoration had not altogether prospered.
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