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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

... prevailed during several centuries, even during the Venetian rule. It is difficult to determine the age of an olive-tree, which is almost imperishable; it is one of those remarkable examples of vegetation that illustrates the eternal, and explains the first instincts of adoration which tree-worship exhibited in the distant past. I spent some hours with the olive trees of Dali; they were grand old specimens of the everlasting. One healthy trunk in full vigour measured twenty-nine feet ...

— Cyprus, as I Saw it in 1879 • Sir Samuel W. Baker

... were sitting, smoking and drinking, in the village "Wirthshaus" among the natives of the place, the Pfarrer addressing me in Latin, the villagers staring at his learning in adoration and astonishment, and laughing at my attempts at German. The landlord came up to me when I arrived and sent in a bottle of wine for me, refusing to be paid for it, for he said that the natives of Interlaken fleeced the English; ...

— Letters to His Friends • Forbes Robinson

... her in plain language, that this is the happiest moment of my life, and also that black eyes are my especial adoration!" ...

— Wired Love - A Romance of Dots and Dashes • Ella Cheever Thayer

... vision of the dark road, of the sombre grounds, and the desolately suspicious aspect of that home of necromancy and intrigue and feminist adoration. I objected that Madame de S— most likely would know nothing of what we wanted to find out. Neither did I think it likely that the young man would be found there. I remembered my glimpse of his face, and somehow gained the conviction ...

— Under Western Eyes • Joseph Conrad

... be the aloofness of trees that prevents their becoming gods; they are revered and worshiped, but without becoming personalities. Babylonian seal engravings and wall pictures often represent a tree before which men or higher beings stand in adoration; according to Maspero[511] there was actual worship of trees in Egypt, and similar cults are found among the wild tribes of India.[512] Adoration, however, does not necessarily imply a god; the Buddhist's worship under the bo-tree is not directed to any being; it ...

— Introduction to the History of Religions - Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV • Crawford Howell Toy

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