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/ˌædərˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Adoration n.

The act of playing honor to a divine being; the worship paid to God; the act of addressing as a god. "The more immediate objects of popular adoration amongst the heathens were deified human beings."

Homage paid to one in high esteem; profound veneration; intense regard and love; fervent devotion.

A method of electing a pope by the expression of homage from two thirds of the conclave. "(Pole) might have been chosen on the spot by adoration."

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Etymology of 'Adoration'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Adoration" Quotes from Famous Books

... hour he had spent with some forgotten object of his adoration in the past, he had spent five with Joan. The thought alarmed him. It came to this. If by rational reduction you translated each flare into hours, the vertigo of his summer with Joan became at once in contrast equivalent to years. And by every law his infatuation should ...

— Kenny • Leona Dalrymple

... Castle of the Golden Circlet. And I go to meet the knights and dames that come to the castle, for this day is the day ordained for the adoration of the ...

— High History of the Holy Graal • Unknown

... the most presumptuous of them all, but they all suffer for the same offense. Take warning! They could walk away if they cared to. They are here of what they think is their free will. They are moths who sought the flame, some from curiosity, some from desire, some craving adoration for themselves, all for one false reason or another. This fate ...

— Caves of Terror • Talbot Mundy

... Christian Guebres might make out no feeble case; the public religious recognition of this great visible type of the True Light is but a fair development of 'the typical principle;' the justifiable imitation of the guilt of heathens in its adoration is but an instance of the transforming powers of 'the sacramental principle;' while it requires but the most moderate use of the great instrument of orthodoxy, 'mystical interpretation,' to find the ...

— Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws • James Buchanan

... as "Lurtee Lee" (his official number was thirty-three), informed me he could "speakel Engliss," and, having by this single utterance at once apparently proved his statement and exhausted his vocabulary, settled down into a rapt and silent adoration ...

— Punch, or The London Charivari, Vol. 153, November 7, 1917 • Various

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