OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 10115

adoration

/ˌæ.dəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
adoración
An act of religious worship.
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.
adoración
Admiration or esteem.
[…] 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.
adoración
The act of adoring; loving devotion or fascination.
He adored Sorais quite as earnestly as Sir Henry adored Nyleptha, and his adoration had not altogether prospered.
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