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

• IPA^(key): /ˌæ.dɚˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, [ˌæ.dɚˈɹeɪ.ʃn̩]
• IPA^(key): /ˌæ.dəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, [ˌæ.dəˈɹeɪ.ʃn̩]
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

adoration (countable and uncountable, plural adorations)

1. (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.

2. (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.

3. (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.

4. (historical) The selection of a pope by acclamation and before any formal ballot (excluded as a voting method in 1621 by Pope Gregory XV).

Antonyms

• disdain

Related terms

• adorational

Translations

an act of religious worship

• Catalan: adoració f
• Esperanto: adoro, adorado
• French: adoration (fr) f
• Galician: adoración (gl) f
• German: Anbetung (de) f
• Interlingue:
• Italian: adorazione (it) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Manx: ard-ooashley m
• 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

admiration or esteem

• Catalan: adoració f
• Danish: hyldning c
• Esperanto: adoro, adorado
• French: adoration (fr) f
• Galician: adoración (gl) f
• Interlingue:
• Italian: adorazione (it) f
• Japanese: 敬愛 (ja) (keiai)
• Manx: ard-ooashley m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hyldning m

• 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

• Catalan: adoració f
• Esperanto: adoro, adorado
• French: adoration (fr) f
• Galician: adoración (gl) f
• Greek: λατρεία (el) f (latreía)
• Interlingue:
• Italian: adorazione (it) f
• Japanese: 敬愛 (ja) (keiai)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Manx: ard-ooashley m
• Portuguese: adoração (pt) f
• Romanian: adorație (ro) f, adorare (ro) f
• Russian: обожа́ние (ru) n (obožánije)
• Spanish: adoración (es) f

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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:

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• Homophone: adorations
• Hyphenation: a‧do‧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.