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adoration

noun
/ˌæ.dəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/

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.

  1. derived from adōrātiō
  2. borrowed from adoration

Definitions

  1. An act of religious worship.

    • 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. Admiration or esteem.

    • […] 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. The act of adoring

    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.
    • He adored Sorais quite as earnestly as Sir Henry adored Nyleptha, and his adoration had not altogether prospered.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. The selection of a pope by acclamation and before any formal ballot (excluded as a voting…

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

    2. Worship of Christ in the Eucharistic host in the Catholic Church, often while exposed in…

      Worship of Christ in the Eucharistic host in the Catholic Church, often while exposed in a monstrance.

The neighborhood

Derived

coadoration, overadoration

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at adoration. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01adoration02infatuation03infatuated04infatuate05enthusiasm06inspiration07flattening08flatter09praising10praise

A definitional loop anchored at adoration. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at adoration

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA