Crossword clues for adoring
adoring
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
adore \a*dore"\ ([.a]*d[=o]r"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. adored ([.a]*d[=o]rd"); p. pr. & vb. n. adoring ([.a]*d[=o]r"[i^]ng).] [OE. aouren, anouren, adoren, OF. aorer, adorer, F. adorer, fr. L. adorare; ad + orare to speak, pray, os, oris, mouth. In OE. confused with honor, the French prefix a- being confused with OE. a, an, on. See Oral.]
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To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors to; to honor as a deity or as divine.
Bishops and priests, . . . bearing the host, which he [James II.] publicly adored.
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To love in the highest degree; to regard with the utmost esteem and affection; to idolize.
The great mass of the population abhorred Popery and adored Monmouth.
--Macaulay.
adoring \adoring\ adj.
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1 feeling or showing profound respect or veneration. Opposite of irreverent.
Syn: worshipful, reverent
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1 feeling or showing a deep love and devotion to. her adoring parents
Syn: doting, fond, lovesome
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, "worshipping," present participle adjective from adore. Related: Adoringly.
Wiktionary
Showing adoration or admiration. n. adoration v
(present participle of adore English)
WordNet
adj. showing adoration [syn: worshipful]
extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent; "adoring grandparents"; "deceiving her preoccupied and doting husband with a young captain"; "hopelessly spoiled by a fond mother" [syn: doting, fond]
Usage examples of "adoring".
But they had learnt that such a King was born that by adoring Him they might be sure of obtaining from Him the salvation which is of God.
You, with all your deep adoring love for me, became all at once blind to my sorrow, whatever care I took to make it clear to your sight.
Tell me whether you are a man or an angel, for I fear lest I sin in adoring you.
The ex-Royal Family waved, each remembering happier occasions, wedding dresses, kisses, the cheers of the adoring crowds.
I am adoring, what are they but idols of stone without speech or feeling?
The same pity Jordan had felt for the cheerful little waif who had saved his life and looked at him with huge, adoring eyes.
If she should raise her own timid, flushed, adoring face to his, the look might change or die away.
Tell me whether you are a man or an angel, for I fear lest I sin in adoring you.
The ex-Royal Family waved, each remembering happier occasions, wedding dresses, kisses, the cheers of the adoring crowds.
A few stolen adoring minutes now and then, and, for the rest, the presence of a world that must be deceived.
If only she could open them and see, not this square-jawed face with its intent gaze of possession, but that other with its eager eyes humbly adoring her.
Pale and perspiring heavily, Plautia could still manage a serene smile as Sabinus covered her face with adoring kisses.
But it was Nero who embellished the place, for here he had raced horse and chariot for the first time, to the plaudits of an adoring claque.
The wind was in his face, the adoring people of Rome around him, and the flickering human lamps showed him the track.
All the adoring love, the passion of worship, which filled his heart, rose to his eyes and shone there.