adoration

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

• IPA^(key): /ˌæ.dəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/

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

adoration (countable and uncountable, plural adorations)

1. (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.

2. (uncountable) Admiration or esteem.
   • 1891, Oscar Wilde, “Chapter 5”, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: 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.

3. (uncountable) The act of adoring; loving devotion or fascination.
   • 1887, H[enry] Rider Haggard, chapter XVI, in 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).
5. (Christianity) Worship of Christ in the Eucharistic host in the Catholic Church, often while exposed in a monstrance.

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• adorational

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

• IPA^(key): /a.dɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃/

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

adoration f (plural adorations)

1. adoration
2. (religion) adoration

• adorer

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