adoration
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French adoration, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin adōrātiō, adōrātiōnem (“worship, adoration”), from adōrō (“beseech; adore, worship”), from ad (“to, towards”) + ōrō (“beg”). adore + -ation
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
adoration (countable and uncountable, plural adorations)
- (countable) 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.
- a. 1779, David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
- (uncountable) Admiration or esteem.
- 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
- […] 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.
- 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
- (uncountable) The act of adoring; loving devotion or fascination.
- 1887, H. Rider Haggard, Allan Quatermain
- He adored Sorais quite as earnestly as Sir Henry adored Nyleptha, and his adoration had not altogether prospered.
- 1887, H. Rider Haggard, Allan Quatermain
- (historical) The selection of a pope by acclamation and before any formal ballot (excluded as a voting method in 1621 by Pope Gregory XV).
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Translations
an act of religious worship
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admiration or esteem
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the act of adoring
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French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin adōrātiō, adōrātiōnem (“worship, adoration”), from adōrō (“beseech; adore, worship”), from ad (“to, towards”) + ōrō (“beg”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.dɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃/
Audio: (file) - Homophone: adorations
- Hyphenation: a‧do‧ra‧tion
Noun
adoration f (plural adorations)
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Further reading
- “adoration”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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