adoration
21adoration — noun a) 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. b) Admiration or esteem. ...if …
22adoration — [[t]æ̱dɔːre͟ɪʃ(ə)n[/t]] N UNCOUNT Adoration is a feeling of great admiration and love for someone or something. She needs and wants to be loved with overwhelming passion and adoration... He had been used to female adoration all his life …
23adoration — noun 1) the girl gazed at him with adoration Syn: love, devotion, care, fondness; admiration, high regard, awe, idolization, worship, hero worship, adulation 2) our day of prayer and adoration Syn …
24adoration — In its ordinary sense, this word (from the Latin adorare, meaning to speak formally or to beseech ) refers to any expression of great love and high esteem. In its religious sense, adoration is the worship due to God alone; thus, adoration is… …
25adoration — /ad euh ray sheuhn/, n. 1. the act of paying honor, as to a divine being; worship. 2. reverent homage. 3. fervent and devoted love. [1535 45; < L adoration (s. of adoratio) worship. See ADORE, ATION] * * * …
26Adoration — Ad|o|ra|ti|on 〈f. 20; veraltet〉 Anbetung [<lat. adoratio] * * * Ad|o|ra|ti|on, die; , en: a) [lat. adoratio] (bildungsspr.) Anbetung, Verehrung; b) (kath. Kirche) dem neu gewählten Papst erwiesene Huldigung der Kardinäle (durch Kniefall u.… …
27adoration — Synonyms and related words: Amor, Christian love, Eros, Platonic love, admiration, affection, agape, apotheosis, appreciation, approbation, approval, ardency, ardor, attachment, awe, bodily love, breathless adoration, brotherly love, caritas,… …
28adoration — ad|o|ra|tion [ˌædəˈreıʃən] n [U] 1.) great love and admiration ▪ the look of adoration in his eyes 2.) literary the showing of great love and respect for God …
29adoration — noun (U) 1 great love and admiration: the look of adoration in his eyes 2 literary religious worship …
30adoration — /ædəˈreɪʃən/ (say aduh rayshuhn) noun 1. the act of paying honour as to a divine being; worship. 2. reverent homage. 3. fervent and devoted love. {Latin adōrātiōn(em), accusative of adōrātiō} …
