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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Adoration \Ad`o*ra"tion\, n. [L. adoratio, fr adorare: cf F.
adoration.]
1. The act of playing honor to a divine being the worship
paid to God; the act of addressing as a god.
The more immediate objects of popular adoration
amongst the heathens were deified human beings.
--Farmer.
2. Homage paid to one in high esteem; profound veneration;
intense regard and love; fervent devotion.
3. A method of electing a pope by the expression of homage
from two thirds of the conclave.
[Pole] might have been chosen on the spot by
adoration. --Froude.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
adoration
n 1: a feeling of profound love and admiration [syn: {worship}]
2: the act of admiring strongly [syn: {adulation}, {idolization},
{idolisation}]
3: worship given to God alone [syn: {latria}]
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