adoration

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An act of religious worship. countable
    — 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.
  2. Admiration or esteem. uncountable
    — […] 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.
  3. The act of adoring; loving devotion or fascination; an intense love sometimes bordering on veneration or infatuation. uncountable
    — Because of Gerald's adoration for Katie, he was blind to her flaws.
  4. The selection of a pope by acclamation and before any formal ballot (excluded as a voting method in 1621 by Pope Gregory XV). countable,historical,uncountable
  5. Worship of Christ in the Eucharistic host in the Catholic Church, often while exposed in a monstrance. countable,uncountable

词形变化

adorations plural

词汇关系

反义词
disdain
衍生词
coadoration overadoration
相关词
adorational

词源

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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