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noun

Adoration n.

The act of playing honor to a divine being; the worship paid to God; the act of addressing as a god. "The more immediate objects of popular adoration amongst the heathens were deified human beings."

Homage paid to one in high esteem; profound veneration; intense regard and love; fervent devotion.

A method of electing a pope by the expression of homage from two thirds of the conclave. "(Pole) might have been chosen on the spot by adoration."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Adoration" Quotes from Famous Books

... clothes, and it was idle for him to tell himself that their humble and contrite hearts, it might be, paid a far richer tribute of devotion than his had ever been, a gift tenfold more acceptable than his elaborate adoration. It was idle for him to move himself to be generous towards them, to tell himself that if he ever came to their gates, stripped of his pride, beaten and in beggar's weeds, that they would be generous towards him, loving him as themselves. Idle and embittering, finally, to ...

— A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man • James Joyce

... expressed Mrs. Haim's sole and characteristic criticism of the organism into which she had so unassumingly entered. Secure in the adoration of Mr. Haim, she might safely have turned the place upside-down and proved to the Grove that she could act the mistress with the best of them; but she changed nothing except the doormat. The kitchen and scullery had already been hers before the eye of Mr. Haim had fallen ...

— The Roll-Call • Arnold Bennett

... This may be well compared with Wieland's statements concerning Shandy in his review of the Bode translation (Merkur, VIII, pp. 247-51, 1774), which forms one of the most exaggerated expressions of adoration in the ...

— Laurence Sterne in Germany • Harvey Waterman Thayer

... my dress,' Mrs. Stuart said with a smile; but she put her arm round the little figure and kissed her, and sent her back to bed perfectly happy. All the children adored their mother, though it was adoration ...

— Odd • Amy Le Feuvre

... establishments. None of the objects of Monsieur Coquereau's matrimonial desire had pleased Madame Coquereau, and none of Madame Coquereau's blushing candidates had caused a pulse in Monsieur Coquereau's being to beat the faster. The Mayor held his mother in professed adoration and holy terror. She held him in abject subjection. Aristide became the confidant, in turn, of Madame's sour philosophy of life and of Monsieur's impotence and despair. As for Mademoiselle Stephanie, she kept on saying "Oui, Monsieur" and "Non, Monsieur," in a ...

— The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol • William J. Locke

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