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An act of religious worship.countable
- 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.
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Admiration or esteem.uncountable
- […] 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.
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The act of adoring; loving devotion or fascination; an intense love sometimes bordering on veneration or infatuation.uncountable
- Because of Gerald's adoration for Katie, he was blind to her flaws.
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The selection of a pope by acclamation and before any formal ballot (excluded as a voting method in 1621 by Pope Gregory XV).countablehistoricaluncountable
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Worship of Christ in the Eucharistic host in the Catholic Church, often while exposed in a monstrance.countableuncountable
ant. disdain