adoration.
An act of religious worship.
Meaning & usage
An act of religious worship.
Admiration or esteem.
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.
The selection of a pope by acclamation and before any formal ballot (excluded as a voting method in 1621 by Pope Gregory XV).
Worship of Christ in the Eucharistic host in the Catholic Church, often while exposed in a monstrance.
Where this word comes from
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.
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