adoration
/ˌæ.dəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.11 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act of adoring; loving devotion or fascination; an intense love sometimes bordering on veneration or infatuation.
Uncountable
noun
The selection of a pope by acclamation and before any formal ballot (excluded as a voting method in 1621 by Pope Gregory XV).
Countable; Uncountable
noun
Worship of Christ in the Eucharistic host in the Catholic Church, often while exposed in a monstrance.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "[…] 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."
- "Because of Gerald's adoration for Katie, he was blind to her flaws."
- "He adored Sorais quite as earnestly as Sir Henry adored Nyleptha, and his adoration had not altogether prospered."