Word of the Day:
adoration
What It Means
An act of religious worship.
Admiration or esteem.
The act of adoring; loving devotion or fascination; an intense love sometimes bordering on veneration or infatuation.
Because of Gerald's adoration for Katie, he was blind to her flaws.
Adoration in Context
“[…] 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.”
Did You Know?
Borrowed from Middle French adoration, from Latin adōrātiō, adōrātiōnem (“worship, adoration”), from adōrō (“beseech; adore, worship”), from ad (“to, towards”) + ōrō (“beg”). From adore + -ation.
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