adoration en · NOUN
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Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French adoration, from Latin adōrātiō, adōrātiōnem (“worship, adoration”), from adōrō (“beseech; adore, worship”), from ad (“to, towards”) + ōrō (“beg”). From adore + -ation.
Meanings
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(countable) An act of religious worship.
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.
a. 1779, David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion:
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(uncountable) Admiration or esteem.
[…] 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.
1891, Oscar Wilde, “Chapter 5”, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:
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(uncountable) The act of adoring; loving devotion or fascination; an intense love sometimes bordering on veneration or infatuation.
Because of Gerald's adoration for Katie, he was blind to her flaws.
He adored Sorais quite as earnestly as Sir Henry adored Nyleptha, and his adoration had not altogether prospered.
1887, H[enry] Rider Haggard, chapter XVI, in Allan Quatermain […], London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:
- (countable, historical, uncountable) The selection of a pope by acclamation and before any formal ballot (excluded as a voting method in 1621 by Pope Gregory XV).
- (countable, uncountable) Worship of Christ in the Eucharistic host in the Catholic Church, often while exposed in a monstrance.
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Translations (63)
ro adorare (an act of religious worship) · da hyldning (admiration or esteem) · ca adoració (admiration or esteem) · el λατρεία (the act of adoring) · uk за́хват (the act of adoring) · fi palvonta (the act of adoring) · pl adoracja (an act of religious worship) · uk поклоні́ння (an act of religious worship) · ota عبادت (the act of adoring) · id adorasi (an act of religious worship) · gv ard-ooashley (an act of religious worship) · bg поклонение (an act of religious worship) · ro stimă (admiration or esteem) · gl adoración (an act of religious worship) · ro adorare (the act of adoring) · pt adoração (an act of religious worship) · es adoración (the act of adoring) · fi ihailu (admiration or esteem) · fr adoration (the act of adoring) · fi palvonta (admiration or esteem) · de Anbetung (an act of religious worship) · fi palvonta (an act of religious worship) · eo adoro (the act of adoring) · ro adorație (admiration or esteem) · ja 敬愛 (the act of adoring) · bg обожание (the act of adoring) · ru обожа́ние (the act of adoring) · ota عبادت (an act of religious worship) · fr adoration (admiration or esteem) · fr adoration (an act of religious worship) · ro apreciere (admiration or esteem) · ca adoració (the act of adoring) · bg боготворене (an act of religious worship) · la adōrātiō (an act of religious worship) · nb hyldning (admiration or esteem) · pl adoracja (admiration or esteem) · es adoración (an act of religious worship) · eo adorado (the act of adoring) · pt adoração (admiration or esteem) · gl adoración (the act of adoring) · ja 敬愛 (admiration or esteem) · fi ihailu (the act of adoring) · bg почит (admiration or esteem) · es adoración (admiration or esteem) · pt adoração (the act of adoring) · gv ard-ooashley (admiration or esteem) · ro adorație (the act of adoring) · eo adorado (admiration or esteem) · it adorazione (admiration or esteem) · eo adoro (admiration or esteem) · it adorazione (an act of religious worship) · ro adorație (an act of religious worship) · gv ard-ooashley (the act of adoring) · ru восхище́ние (admiration or esteem) · gl adoración (admiration or esteem) · ru поклоне́ние (an act of religious worship) · eo adoro (an act of religious worship) · eo adorado (an act of religious worship) · bg възхищение (admiration or esteem) · uk захо́плення (the act of adoring) · sa अर्चा (an act of religious worship) · ca adoració (an act of religious worship) · it adorazione (the act of adoring)