Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To worship as God or a god.
- v. To regard with deep, often rapturous love. See Synonyms at revere1.
- v. To like very much: adores mink coats.
- v. To worship.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To worship; pay supreme reverence to; address in prayer and thanksgiving; pay divine honors to; honor as divine.
- To honor and regard in a very high degree; regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect.
- Synonyms Adore, Worship, Reverence, Venerate, Revere, idolize, deify, pay homage to. Adore and worship, when not applied exclusively to God or gods, are manifestly hyperbolical: as, he worshiped the ground she trod on. The others seem literal when applied to men, places, or things. Adore and worship are applied primarily to acts and words of homage; the others are not. None of them primarily includes the idea of intercessory prayer. Adore is the noblest of the words. To worship is to pay homage by outward forms or in customary places: “A man of Ethiopia … had come to Jerusalem for to worship.” Acts viii. 27. In the Bible worship is used to express also extreme manifestations of respect paid to men: “As Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him, and fell down at his feet, and worshipped him.” Acts x. 25. Reverence is upon a plane a little different from that of venerate, there being sometimes more fear suggested by the former and more sacredness by the latter. We should reverence position, ability, and character; we should venerate old age. Revere differs from reverence chiefly in suggesting rather less solemnity or awe.
- To perform an act of worship; be filled with adoration, reverence, or reverential admiration.
- To gild; adorn.
Wiktionary
- v. To worship.
- v. To love with one's entire heart and soul; regard with deep respect and affection.
- v. To be very fond of.
- v. obsolete To adorn.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors to; to honor as a deity or as divine.
- v. To love in the highest degree; to regard with the utmost esteem and affection; to idolize.
- v. obsolete To adorn.
WordNet 3.0
- v. love intensely
Etymologies
- From Old French aorer, from Latin adoro, from ad ("to") + to speak, to pray. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English adouren, from Old French adourer, from Latin adōrāre, to pray to : ad-, ad- + ōrāre, to pray. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“What I adore is how she actually looks like Rose and Ten had a daughter.”
“My colleague Yael, whom I adore, is moving back to Toronto sooner than I had expected.”
“But once she has asked pardon, he is unconditionally in adore again: "Fall not a tear, we say, a singular of them rates/All which is won as good as lost.”
“Unknown to Fauchelevent, Marius has found Cosette as good as a dual have depressed in adore with any other.”
“Sara Moulton, whom I adore, is way too scattered to be trying to talk and cook at the same time.”
“And Melusine, who we all adore, is not likely to be found this side of the Atlantic anytime soon, more's the pity.”
“With series, the thing I adore is the size of the canvass.”
“The next Homie I adore is the blind Homie -- or at least I think he is blind.”
“Let me, in short, adore Thee our Father, and Thy Son together with Thee; let me win the favour of Thy Holy Spirit, Who is from Thee, through Thy Only-begotten.”
“And, the one I adore is that Swedish model/actress/whatever Carolina something who wouldn’t go meet him ’cause he was “ugly as sin.”.”
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