adoration

adoration

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French adoration, from Latin adōrātiō, adōrātiōnem (“worship, adoration”), from adōrō (“beseech; adore, worship”), from ad (“to, towards”) + ōrō (“beg”).adore +‎ -ation

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌæ.dəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən
• Hyphenation: ad‧o‧ra‧tion

Noun

adoration (countable and uncountable, plural adorations)

1. (countable) An act of religious worship.
   • a. 1779, David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

     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.

2. (uncountable) Admiration or esteem.
   • 1891, Oscar Wilde, “Chapter 5”, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., OCLC 34363729:

     […] 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.

3. (uncountable) The act of adoring; loving devotion or fascination.
   • 1887, H[enry] Rider Haggard, chapter XVI, in Allan Quatermain‎:

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

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).
5. (religion) Worship of Christ in the Eucharistic host in the Catholic Church, often while exposed in a monstrance.

Antonyms

• disdain

Related terms

• adorational

Translations

an act of religious worship

Catalan: adoració (ca) f Esperanto: adoro, adorado French: adoration (fr) f Galician: adoración (gl) f German: Anbetung (de) f Italian: adorazione (it) f Latin: adōrātiō f Manx: ard-ooashley m Polish: adoracja (pl) f Portuguese: adoração (pt) f Romanian: adorație (ro) f, adorare (ro) f Russian: поклоне́ние (ru) n (poklonénije) Sanskrit: अर्चा (sa) f (arcā) Spanish: adoración (es) f

admiration or esteem

Catalan: adoració (ca) f Danish: hyldning c Esperanto: adoro, adorado French: adoration (fr) f Galician: adoración (gl) f Italian: adorazione (it) f Japanese: 敬愛 (ja) (keiai) Manx: ard-ooashley m Norwegian: Bokmål: hyldning m Polish: adoracja (pl) f Portuguese: adoração (pt) f Romanian: adorație (ro) f, apreciere (ro) f, stimă (ro) f Russian: восхище́ние (ru) n (vosxiščénije) Spanish: adoración (es) f

the act of adoring

Catalan: adoració (ca) f Esperanto: adoro, adorado French: adoration (fr) f Galician: adoración (gl) f Greek: λατρεία (el) f (latreía) Italian: adorazione (it) f Japanese: 敬愛 (ja) (keiai) Manx: ard-ooashley m Portuguese: adoração (pt) f Romanian: adorație (ro) f, adorare (ro) f Russian: обожа́ние (ru) n (obožánije) Spanish: adoración (es) f

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adōrātiō, adōrātiōnem (“worship, adoration”), from adōrō (“beseech; adore, worship”), from ad (“to, towards”) + ōrō (“beg”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.dɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃/

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• Homophone: adorations
• Hyphenation: a‧do‧ra‧tion

Noun

adoration f (plural adorations)

1. adoration
2. (religion) adoration

Related terms

• adorer

Further reading

• “adoration”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.