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Adoration

Adoration Meaning & Definition
Adoration Definition And Meaning

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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