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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adoration
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He looked at Julia in obvious adoration.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But both confess that they originally learned to play guitar and did so from an adolescent adoration of Western pop music.
▪ He had never seen such adoration on a face before, and it was all directed at him.
▪ He is said to have shown his adoration for her by kissing her holy manuscripts and having them richly bound for her.
▪ In adoration what we see is as alone as you, as me.
▪ Is it the thought of prizes, a tenured teaching position, the long-shot of commercial success and critical adoration?
▪ Joanna had looked up at him, open adoration in her glowing sapphire eyes.
▪ Morales, who came to Poteet High School when it opened in 1990, was greeted with adoration from the students.
▪ Velchanos was always subject to the goddess and always shown in attitudes of adoration.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adoration

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
adoration

1540s, from Middle French adoration, from Latin adorationem (nominative adoratio) "worship, adoration," noun of action from past participle stem of adorare; see adore, the original sense of which is preserved in this word.

Wiktionary
adoration

n. 1 (context countable English) An act of religious worship. 2 (context uncountable English) admiration or esteem. 3 (context uncountable English) The act of adoring; loving devotion or fascination.

WordNet
adoration
  1. n. a feeling of profound love and admiration [syn: worship]

  2. the act of admiring strongly [syn: idolization, idolisation]

  3. worship given to God alone [syn: latria]

Wikipedia
Adoration

Adoration ( Latin) is respect, reverence, strong admiration or devotion in a certain person, place, or thing. The term comes from the Latin adōrātiō, meaning "to give homage or worship to someone or something".

Adoration (2008 film)

Adoration is a 2008 Canadian drama film directed by Atom Egoyan and starring Rachel Blanchard, Scott Speedman and Devon Bostick. It is Egoyan's first feature film since Where The Truth Lies.

The film was first shown at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. Adoration won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and was nominated for the Palme d'Or. It won "Best Canadian Feature Film – Special Jury Citation" at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival. The film had its U.S. premiere in April 2009 at the San Francisco International Film Festival and went into U.S. release on May 8, 2009.

Adoration (disambiguation)

Adoration is respect, reverence, strong admiration or devotion in a certain person, place, or thing.

Adoration may also refer to:

In arts and entertainment

  • Adoration (1928 film), an American drama directed by Frank Lloyd
  • Adoration (2008 film), a Canadian drama directed by Atom Egoyan
  • Adoration (2013 film), or Two Mothers and Perfect Mothers, an Australian-French drama directed by Anne Fontaine
  • Adoration (band), UK band formed in 2003
  • Adoration: The Worship Album, by the Newsboys
  • Adoration, an EP and single by Mortal Love

Other uses:

  • Eucharistic Adoration, a practice in the Roman Catholic, Anglo-Catholic and some Lutheran traditions
  • Adoration tomato, a tomato cultivar
Adoration (2013 film)

Adoration (also known as Adore (US, Canada, UK), and internationally as Two Mothers and Perfect Mothers) is a 2013 Australian-French drama film directed by Anne Fontaine. The film is based on a novella by British writer Doris Lessing called The Grandmothers.

The original title of the film was Two Mothers and it premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival under this title.

Adoration (1928 film)

Adoration (1928) is a synchronized sound drama film with a Vitaphone musical score and sound effects. The film was released by First National Pictures, a subsidiary of Warner Bros., and directed by Frank Lloyd. It stars Billie Dove, Antonio Moreno, Emile Chautard and Lucy Doraine. The film was also issued in a shorter silent version for theatres that were not yet wired for sound.

Adoration (band)

Adoration (Also known as Adoration UK) Formed in 2003 initiated by John Stone (Vocals, former manager of band Vendemmian) and Stephen Carey (formerly of This Burning Effigy, NFD and currently of the band ' The Eden House').

The band were musically influenced by the likes of The Cure, The Chameleons, Cocteau Twins & The Mission.

After an initial flurry of activity during which the band supported bands such as Red Lorry Yellow Lorry and a tour with All About Eve Adoration then spent 4 years in the studio to write and record their first album, with Lee-Anne Burgess joining them on bass in 2006.

Their debut album Sleepwaking was released in September 2008, distributed by Plastic Head.

With reviews by Steve Beebee from Kerrang!, Total Guitar and Sonic Seducer (also being on the cover CD) and Lee-Anne Burgess being interviewed by Joel McIvor in Bass Guitar Magazine the album sold out of its first pressing very quickly.

With the addition of Chris Milden (of Lahannya) and Rob Leydon on guitars and Simon Rippin ( formerly of Nefilim) on drums the new line up made its live return to a sold out Dingwalls in London.

The band then went over to Europe to perform at the 2009 Wave-Gotik-Treffen in Leipzig Germany alongside I Like Trains and The Cranes before returning to the Whitby Gothic Weekend with Faith and the Muse. After a headline show at London's Camden underworld one review said "the band had decided to replicate Chartres Cathedral in sound".

Adoration went on to share the bill with the likes of The Birthday Massacre before they supported The Chameleons (now Chameleons Vox) at a sold out Islington 02 Academy where the band also shot the video for the single 'Sense'.

The band split in April 2012 and played their farewell gig at the Islington O2 Academy in London.

Usage examples of "adoration".

For if invocations, conjurations, fumigations and adorations are used, then an open pact is formed with the devil, even if there has been no surrender of body and soul together with explicit abjuration of the Faith either wholly or in part.

When only a miracle leads a person to acknowledgment of God and to adoration and piety, he acts from the natural and not the spiritual man.

French people adore the king, but all thinking men here know well enough that there is more show than reality in that adoration, and the court has no confidence in it.

Godhead and humanity are to be adored with one and the same adoration?

Thirdly, because it would be opposed to the veneration of this sacrament, if any substance were there, which could not be adored with adoration of latria.

Now beholding the scarred face of him, the tender, smiling lips, the adoration in his grey eyes, she trembled amain and, swaying to him, rested her hands on his mailed shoulders.

In Bradwell, Jane returned to her day school after the Easter holiday, Gerald continued to regard me with mute adoration, and spring flowers and shrubs began to bring great splashes of color to the green and brown gardens of Silverwood, first the daffodils, then the tulips, the aubrietia tumbling over dwarf walls, and the camellias with great blossoms of pink and red.

Instantly Montmagny fell to his knees before the cross in silent adoration, and his example was followed by all the gay train of beplumed officers.

My letter was, in my own estimation, a perfect masterpiece, and just the kind of epistle by which I was certain to conquer her very adoration, and to sink for ever the sun of Cordiani, whom I could not accept as the sort of being likely to make her hesitate for one instant in her choice between him and me.

Hanging there, now, all blood and dirt, with eyes that look straight out, forever, across the surface of the world -- he wanted me to do that for him, to him, with you to bear witness, here and forever, here and in the great murch in Charlottesville, to bear witness to all the world of the transfiguration of a twisted, tormented being who desired both adoration and punishment, worship and death -- here revealed, suddenly, as I slew him, here transfigured, instantly, for you, for all the world, at the moment of his death -- the Deus Irae.

Syfte, the eldest daughter, was particularly intrigued, and even when she turned twenty, and rationality overpowered the primitive, childish adoration of Uncle Ender, she was still obsessed with him.

You and I may think of Antonina as a difficult, demanding and manipulative woman, but Belisarius loves her to adoration, and he would rather run on his sword like a godless Roman than bring any harm to her.

Silvia was the adoration of France, and her talent was the real support of all the comedies which the greatest authors wrote for her, especially of, the plays of Marivaux, for without her his comedies would never have gone to posterity.

The chief cause of my decision was not that I had a thousand sequins in the hands of the faro banker, or my well-stocked wardrobe, or the fear of not getting a living somewhere else, but the unpleasant recollection that I should leave behind me a woman whom I loved to adoration, and from whom I had not yet obtained any favour, not even that of kissing her hand.

When Romeo mopes and frets about his unproductive non-relationship with a certain Rosaline, who never appears in the play but is instead the disembodied goddess whom he fruitlessly worships, Mercutio mocks his misplaced adoration.