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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

... girls never thought very much about them. One has a swarm-memory, but individuals escape one. The older girl, in these schools, fancied herself immensely. The little satellite that attached itself, with its adoration, had no identity. It had a nickname, I think, or a number.... I have forgotten. We minimized these midges out of everything that could distinguish them.... Fancy one of these turning up in Madame Barras and coming to me on the memory ...

— The Sleuth of St. James's Square • Melville Davisson Post

... This manoeuvre succeeded each time, although Madame Desvarennes had seen through it from the first. It appeared as if the mother felt a secret joy in proving under all circumstances the unbounded adoration which she felt for her ...

— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet

... her descended to brutality, she would have flown to her lover or else died. One critic says: "Laura must have been of a phlegmatic type, not of a fine or sensitive nature, and all of her wants were satisfied, her life protected and complete. The adoration of Petrarch was not a necessity to her—it came in as a pleasing diversion, a beautiful compliment, but something she could easily do without. Had she been a maid and been kept the prisoner that she was, the flame of love would have burned her heart out, and ...

— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 13 - Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers • Elbert Hubbard

... would not Nydia have given then for one hour's prerogative of sight, to have watched her hopes ripening to effect—to have seen the first dawn of the imagined love—to have worshipped with more than Persian adoration the rising of that sun which her credulous soul believed was to break upon her dreary night! Far different, as she stood then and there, were the thoughts, the emotions of the blind girl, from those of ...

— The Last Days of Pompeii • Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

... the appointed rendezvous. Here their lord and master was expecting them in the shape of a goat with the face of a man and the tail of an ape. Homage was first done by his new vassals offering up their soul or some part of the body; afterwards in adoration kissing him on the back—the accustomed salutation.[72] Next followed the different signs and ceremonies of the infernal vassalage, in particular treading and spitting upon the cross. Then to eating and drinking; after which ...

— The Superstitions of Witchcraft • Howard Williams

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