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adore

verb
/əˈdɔː/UK/əˈdoɹ/US/əˈdo(ː)ɹ/

Etymology

From Middle English *adoren, aouren, from Old French adorer, aorer, from Latin adōrō (“to pray to”), from ad (“to”) + ōrō (“to speak”).

  1. derived from adōrō — “to pray to”
  2. derived from adorer
  3. inherited from *adoren✻

Definitions

  1. To worship.

    • Now, gods that we adore, whereof comes this?
    • O come, let us adore Him, Christ the Lord.

  2. To love with one's entire heart and soul

    To love with one's entire heart and soul; regard with deep respect and affection.

    • It is obvious to everyone that Gerry adores Heather.
    • The great mass of the population abhorred Popery and adored Monmouth.
    • You pretend you're high / Pretend you're bored / Pretend you're anything / Just to be adored

  3. To be very fond of.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. To adorn.

      • […] and likewise on her hed A Chapelet of sundry flowers she wore, From vnder which the deawy humour shed, Did tricle downe her haire, like to the hore Congealed litle drops, which doe the morne adore.

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Derived

adorant, adorative, adorement, adorer, adoringly, overadored, unadored

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at adore. 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.

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

5 hops · closes at adore

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