Adoration
[ædə'reɪʃ(ə)n] or [,ædə'reʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the worship given to God alone.
(noun.) the act of admiring strongly.
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Definition
(n.) The act of playing honor to a divine being; the worship paid to God; the act of addressing as a god.
(n.) Homage paid to one in high esteem; profound veneration; intense regard and love; fervent devotion.
(n.) A method of electing a pope by the expression of homage from two thirds of the conclave.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Worship, devotion.[2]. Homage, reverence, veneration.
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Examples
- You brought your adoration and your portmanteau here together. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- And, as she was by no means so far superior to her sex as to be above jealousy, she disliked him the more for his adoration of Amelia. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Ginevra admired my taste, for all these things were her adoration; she could then readily credit that they were mine too. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It may be a vice, it may be a virtue, but adoration of female beauty and merit constitutes three parts of my character, madam. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- But, through all these causes combined, I sincerely believe she had a kind of adoration for him before he left the house that night. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Worcester had for the last three years so surfeited me with love and adoration, that, really, a little indifference was quite refreshing! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- If there ever were a pair of twins in danger of being utterly spoiled by adoration, it was these prattling Brookes. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- We may outgrow our adoration of the Constitution or Private Property only to establish some new totem pole. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Tom knelt before him, with clasped hands, and with an absorbed expression of love, trust, adoration, on his quiet face. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Not least among the blessings is a shattering of the good-and-bad-man theory: the assassination of tyrants or the adoration of saviors. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Every thing that I have said or done, for many weeks past, has been with the sole view of marking my adoration of yourself. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Have you any idea yet, of Estella's views on the adoration question? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He saw this woman--the first to whom he had given his young adoration--amid the throng of stupid criminals. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- That he ought to be worshipped by adoration, prayer, and thanksgiving. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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