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/ədˈɔrɪŋ/ Listen

verb

adore v. t. (past & past part. adored; pres. part. adoring)

To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors to; to honor as a deity or as divine. "Bishops and priests,... bearing the host, which he (James II.) publicly adored."

To love in the highest degree; to regard with the utmost esteem and affection; to idolize. "The great mass of the population abhorred Popery and adored Monmouth."

Adore v. t. To adorn. (Obs.) "Congealed little drops which do the morn adore."

adjective

adoring adj.

Feeling or showing profound respect or veneration. Opposite of irreverent.

Synonyms: worshipful, reverent

Feeling or showing a deep love and devotion to. "Her adoring parents"

Synonyms: doting, fond, lovesome

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Etymology of 'Adoring'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Adoring" Quotes from Famous Books

... to account for the manifestations of a child's adoring affection, so emotional, so irrational, so tangled with the affairs of the imagination. I simply could not endure the thought that "strange people" should know that my handsome father owned this homely little girl. But even in my chivalric ...

— Twenty Years At Hull House • Jane Addams

... Thebes, hath this my magic goaded out. And there, with the old King's daughters, in a rout Confused, they make their dwelling-place between The roofless rocks and shadowy pine trees green. Thus shall this Thebes, how sore soe'er it smart, Learn and forget not, till she crave her part In mine adoring; thus must I speak clear To save my mother's fame, and crown me here, As true God, born by ...

— Hippolytus/The Bacchae • Euripides

... There is a certain fittingness in adoring towards the east. First, because the Divine majesty is indicated in the movement of the heavens which is from the east. Secondly, because Paradise was situated in the east according to the Septuagint version of Gen. 2:8, and so we signify our ...

— Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) • Thomas Aquinas

... shook his hand and said, "Don't be cast down—it will all come out right—I know it will all come out right," it seemed a blessed thing to be in misfortune, and the tears that welled up to his eyes were the messengers of an adoring and a grateful heart; and when the girl saw them and answering tears came into her own eyes, Washington could hardly contain the excess of happiness that poured into the cavities of his breast that were so lately stored ...

— The Gilded Age, Complete • Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner

... head and looked into his adoring eyes,—then kissed him with a strange, grave tenderness as though bidding him farewell, and with a gentle gesture motioned him away. Elated and flushed with joy, he obeyed her sign, and left her, disappearing in the same phantom-like way ...

— The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance • Marie Corelli

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