Adoration

Quick meaning: Adoration is a noun meaning (countable, religion) An act of religious worship.

Meaning

(countable, religion) An act of religious worship.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable) Admiration or esteem.
2. (uncountable) The act of adoring; loving devotion or fascination; an intense love sometimes bordering on veneration or infatuation.
3. (Christianity) Worship of Christ in the Eucharistic host in the Catholic Church, often while exposed in a monstrance.
4. (historical) The selection of a pope by acclamation and before any formal ballot (excluded as a voting method in 1621 by Pope Gregory XV).

Example Sentences

Because of Gerald's adoration for Katie, he was blind to her flaws.

He adored Sorais quite as earnestly as Sir Henry adored Nyleptha, and his adoration had not altogether prospered.

[…] if she can create the sense of beauty in people whose lives have been sordid and ugly...she is worthy of all your adoration, worthy of the adoration of the world.

We incessantly look forward, and endeavour, by prayers, adoration, and sacrifice, to appease those unknown powers, whom we find, by experience, so able to afflict and oppress us.

Word Forms

• adorations

Synonyms for adoration

Depending on context, synonyms include adulation, latria, idolization, idolisation, worship.

Antonyms for adoration

Common opposites include disdain.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include worship, idolization, idolisation, latria, adulation, devotion.

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