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/ədˈɔrɪŋ/ Listen

verb

adore v. t. (past & past part. adored; pres. part. adoring)

To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors to; to honor as a deity or as divine. "Bishops and priests,... bearing the host, which he (James II.) publicly adored."

To love in the highest degree; to regard with the utmost esteem and affection; to idolize. "The great mass of the population abhorred Popery and adored Monmouth."

Adore v. t. To adorn. (Obs.) "Congealed little drops which do the morn adore."

adjective

adoring adj.

Feeling or showing profound respect or veneration. Opposite of irreverent.

Synonyms: worshipful, reverent

Feeling or showing a deep love and devotion to. "Her adoring parents"

Synonyms: doting, fond, lovesome

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Etymology of 'Adoring'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Adoring" Quotes from Famous Books

... 4 Adoring angels at his birth Make the Redeemer known; Thus shall he come to judge the earth, And angels ...

— The Psalms of David - Imitated in the Language of The New Testament - And Applied to The Christian State and Worship • Isaac Watts

... subject for thought to inquire whether, if Daniel's weeks had run out in the times of the Maccabees, and the Messenger of the Covenant had then come suddenly into His Temple, Christ would not have found adoring worshippers instead of fierce persecutors—a throne instead of a cross? Would He not then have been welcomed by the heroes of Emmaus and Bethsura, instead of being despised and rejected of men? Would he ...

— Hebrew Heroes - A Tale Founded on Jewish History • AKA A.L.O.E. A.L.O.E., Charlotte Maria Tucker

... at the representations upon contracts and other documents of that kind (see Fig. 10), at the cylindrical or conical seals which have gravitated in thousands into our museums (Figs. 11 and 12); you will see a personage adoring a star, still oftener you will find the sun's disk and the crescent moon figured upon the field, with, perhaps, one or several stars. These images are only omitted upon reliefs that are purely narrative and historical, like most of those in the Assyrian palaces. Everywhere ...

— A History of Art in Chaldaea & Assyria, v. 1 • Georges Perrot

... her story of the "many mansions," nor the many dear and tender and motherly deeds that she had done for this boarder of hers, and how, now that he was in a position to pay her with "good measure, pressed down and running over," he still gave to her respectful, loving, almost adoring reverence. Pliny had not been a familiar friend of Theodore's in the days when the latter had heated his coffee at the old lady's little kitchen stove, and the stylish Winny had made distracting little cream cakes for his saloon. Indeed the friendship that had sprung up between these two was something ...

— Three People • Pansy

... face in that instant of dream was the face of Miss Katharine Lansdale, and coupled with the vision was a prescience that in some later life I should again look back and see myself as now, a grown but awkward boy, still holding aloof—still adoring from some remote background while other and bolder gallants captured trophies and lightly carolled their serenades. It seemed like borrowing trouble to look still farther into the future, but the vision was striking. Surely, History does repeat ...

— The Boss of Little Arcady • Harry Leon Wilson

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