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adoration

Pronunciation: /ˌæ.dəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/

The English word “adoration” has 5 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. An act of religious worship.
  2. Admiration or esteem.
  3. The act of adoring; loving devotion or fascination; an intense love sometimes bordering on veneration or infatuation.
  4. The selection of a pope by acclamation and before any formal ballot (excluded as a voting method in 1621 by Pope Gregory XV).
  5. Worship of Christ in the Eucharistic host in the Catholic Church, often while exposed in a monstrance.

Etymology

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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