About The Word Adoration
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Adoration
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What's The Definition Of Adoration?
[n] worship given to God alone
[n] the act of admiring strongly [n] a feeling of profound love and admiration Synonyms | Synonyms for Adoration: idolisation | idolization | latria | worship Related Terms | Find terms related to Adoration: admiration | affection | agape | Amor | apotheosis | appreciation | approbation | approval | ardency | ardor | attachment | awe | bodily love | breathless adoration | brotherly love | caritas | charity | Christian love | churchgoing | conformity | conjugal love | consideration | courtesy | co-worship | crush | cult | cultism | cultus | deference | deification | desire | devotedness | devotion | devoutness | dulia | dutifulness | duty | Eros | esteem | estimation | exaggerated respect | faith | faithful love | faithfulness | fancy | favor | fervor | flame | fondness | free love | free-lovism | great respect | heart | hero worship | high regard | homage | honor | hyperdulia | idolatry | idolism | idolization | infatuation | lasciviousness | latria | libido | like | liking | love | love of God | lovemaking | married love | observance | passion | physical love | pietism | piety | piousness | Platonic love | popular regard | popularity | prestige | prostration | regard | religion | religionism | religiousness | respect | reverence | reverential regard | sentiment | sex | sexual love | shine | spiritual love | tender feeling | tender passion | theism | transcendent wonder | truelove | uxoriousness | veneration | weakness | worship | worshipfulness | worshiping | yearning See Also | admiration | appreciation | glorification | love | worship Adoration In Webster's Dictionary \Ad`o*ra"tion\, n. [L. adoratio, fr. adorare: cf. F.
adoration.]
1. 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.
--Farmer.
2. Homage paid to one in high esteem; profound veneration;
intense regard and love; fervent devotion.
3. 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. --Froude.
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