Adoring
[ə'dɔrɪŋ]
Definition
(adj.) extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent; 'adoring grandparents'; 'deceiving her preoccupied and doting husband with a young captain'; 'hopelessly spoiled by a fond mother' .
(adj.) showing adoration .
Editor: Warren--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p. Adored ) /); p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adore
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Examples
- He was now at my feet, the humble sighing, adoring, suppliant lover again. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Very well, then, said I, to whom this was a new and not unwelcome light, I have never left off adoring her. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- And the remorse of an adoring husband? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- When you told me your own story, you told me plainly that you began adoring her the first time you saw her, when you were very young indeed. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Why, what can a man do when he takes to adoring one of you mermaids? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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