adoration

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French adoration, from Latin adōrātiō, adōrātiōnem (“worship, adoration”), from adōrō (“beseech; adore, worship”), from ad (“to, towards”) + ōrō (“beg”). From adore +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌæ.dəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən
• Hyphenation: ad‧o‧ra‧tion

Noun

adoration (countable and uncountable, plural adorations)

2. (countable, religion) An act of religious worship.
   • a. 1779, David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion:

     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.

3. (uncountable) Admiration or esteem.
   • 1891, Oscar Wilde, “Chapter 5”, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:

     […] if she can create the sense of beauty in people whose lives have been sordid and ugly...she is worthy of all your adoration, worthy of the adoration of the world.

5. (uncountable) The act of adoring; loving devotion or fascination; an intense love sometimes bordering on veneration or infatuation.

   Because of Gerald's adoration for Katie, he was blind to her flaws.

   • 1887, H[enry] Rider Haggard, chapter XVI, in Allan Quatermain […], London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:

     He adored Sorais quite as earnestly as Sir Henry adored Nyleptha, and his adoration had not altogether prospered.

6. (historical) The selection of a pope by acclamation and before any formal ballot (excluded as a voting method in 1621 by Pope Gregory XV).
7. (Christianity) Worship of Christ in the Eucharistic host in the Catholic Church, often while exposed in a monstrance.

Antonyms

• disdain

Derived terms

• coadoration
• overadoration

Related terms

• adorational

Translations

an act of religious worship

• Bulgarian: поклонение n (poklonenie), боготворене (bg) n (bogotvorene)
• Catalan: adoració (ca) f
• Esperanto: adoro, adorado
• Finnish: palvonta (fi)
• French: adoration (fr) f
• Galician: adoración (gl) f
• German: Anbetung (de) f
• Indonesian: adorasi
• Italian: adorazione (it) f
• Latin: adōrātiō (la) f
• Manx: ard-ooashley m
• Polish: adoracja (pl) f
• Portuguese: adoração (pt) f
• Romanian: adorație (ro) f, adorare (ro) f
• Russian: поклоне́ние (ru) n (poklonénije)
• Sanskrit: अर्चा (sa) f (arcā)
• Spanish: adoración (es) f
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: عبادت (ʼibâdet)

• Ukrainian: поклоні́ння (uk) n (poklonínnja)

admiration or esteem

• Bulgarian: почит (bg) f (počit), възхищение (bg) n (văzhištenie)
• Catalan: adoració (ca) f
• Danish: hyldning c
• Esperanto: adoro, adorado
• Finnish: ihailu (fi), palvonta (fi)
• French: adoration (fr) f
• Galician: adoración (gl) f
• Italian: adorazione (it) f
• Japanese: 敬愛 (ja) (keiai)
• Manx: ard-ooashley m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hyldning m

• Polish: adoracja (pl) f
• Portuguese: adoração (pt) f
• Romanian: adorație (ro) f, apreciere (ro) f, stimă (ro) f
• Russian: восхище́ние (ru) n (vosxiščénije)
• Spanish: adoración (es) f

the act of adoring

• Bulgarian: обожание (bg) n (obožanie)
• Catalan: adoració (ca) f
• Esperanto: adoro, adorado
• Finnish: palvonta (fi), ihailu (fi)
• French: adoration (fr) f
• Galician: adoración (gl) f
• Greek: λατρεία (el) f (latreía)
• Italian: adorazione (it) f
• Japanese: 敬愛 (ja) (keiai)
• Manx: ard-ooashley m
• Portuguese: adoração (pt) f
• Romanian: adorație (ro) f, adorare (ro) f
• Russian: обожа́ние (ru) n (obožánije)
• Spanish: adoración (es) f
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: عبادت (ʼibâdet)

• Ukrainian: захо́плення n (zaxóplennja), за́хват (uk) n (záxvat)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adōrātiōnem (“worship, adoration”), from adōrō (“beseech; adore, worship”), from ad (“to, towards”) + ōrō (“beg”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.dɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃/

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Homophone: adorations
• Hyphenation: ado‧ra‧tion

Noun

adoration f (plural adorations)

1. adoration
2. (religion) adoration

Related terms

• adorer

Further reading

• “adoration”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012