adoration
pronunciation
How to pronounce adoration in British English:
UK [ˌædəˈreɪʃn]
How to pronounce adoration in American English:
US [ˌædəˈreʃən]
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- Noun:
- a feeling of profound love and admiration
- the act of admiring strongly
- worship given to God alone
Word Origin
- adoration (n.)
- 1540s, from Middle French adoration, from Latin adorationem (nominative adoratio) "worship, adoration," noun of action from past participle stem of adorare; see adore, the original sense of which is preserved in this word.
Example
- 1. Such adoration propels insidious product advertising .
- 2. His dark hair slightly ruffled and his eyes full of adoration as his looked at his bride to be .
- 3. And we learned last week that adoration has its limits even among the closest of friends .
- 4. In the end , we all outlast the object of our adoration , perhaps because passion runs its course more swiftly than other human emotions , perhaps as a result of excessive familiarity with the object of desire .
- 5. Margo believes eve 's story of hard luck and adoration ; no actor has much trouble believing others would want to devote their lives to them .