About The Word Adore
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Adore
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What's The Definition Of Adore?
[v] love intensely; "he just adored his wife"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Adore: Related Terms | Find terms related to Adore: accord respect to | admire | adulate | affection | apotheosize | appreciate | bask in | be pleased with | cherish | coddle | dearly love | defer to | deify | delight in | derive pleasure from | devour | do homage to | do service | dote | dote on | eat up | enjoy | entertain respect for | esteem | exalt | extol | fancy | favor | feast on | freak out on | get high on | gloat over | groove on | hallow | hero-worship | hold dear | hold in esteem | hold in reverence | honor | idolize | indulge | indulge in | laud | like | look up to | love | love to distraction | luxuriate in | pamper | pay homage to | praise | prize | regard | rejoice in | relish | respect | revel in | revere | reverence | riot in | savor | smack the lips | spoil | swim in | take pleasure in | think highly of | think much of | think well of | treasure | value | venerate | wallow in | worship See Also | hero-worship | idolise | idolize | love | revere | worship Adore In Webster's Dictionary \A*dore"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adored ; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Adoring}.] [OE. aouren, anouren, adoren, OF. aorer, adorer,
F. adorer, fr. L. adorare; ad + orare to speak, pray, os,
oris, mouth. In OE. confused with honor, the French prefix a-
being confused with OE. a, an, on. See {Oral}.]
1. To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors
to; to honor as deity or as divine.
Bishops and priests, . . . bearing the host, which
he [James ?.] publicly adored. --Smollett.
2. To love in the highest degree; to regard with the utmost
esteem and affection; to idolize.
The great mass of the population abhorred Popery and
adored Montouth. --Macaulay.
\A*dore"\, v. t. To adorn. [Obs.] Congealed little drops which do the morn adore. --Spenser. |
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