ADORATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does adoration mean? 

• ADORATION (noun)
  The noun ADORATION has 3 senses:

1. a feeling of profound love and admiration

2. the act of admiring strongly

3. the worship given to God alone

  Familiarity information: ADORATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADORATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A feeling of profound love and admiration

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

adoration; worship

Hypernyms ("adoration" is a kind of...):

love (a strong positive emotion of regard and affection)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of admiring strongly

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

adoration; idolisation; idolization

Hypernyms ("adoration" is a kind of...):

admiration; appreciation (a favorable judgment)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "adoration"):

glorification (the act of glorifying (as in worship))

Sense 3

Meaning:

The worship given to God alone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

adoration; latria

Hypernyms ("adoration" is a kind of...):

worship (the activity of worshipping)

 Context examples 

But, through all these causes combined, I sincerely believe she had a kind of adoration for him before he left the house that night.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But love that was feverish and burning, that was adoration, that was madness, it had taken John Thornton to arouse.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Yet even thus I loved them to adoration; and to save them, I resolved to dedicate myself to my most abhorred task.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

His love partook of the nature of worship, dumb, inarticulate, a silent adoration.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

If there ever were a pair of twins in danger of being utterly spoiled by adoration, it was these prattling Brookes.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Every thing that I have said or done, for many weeks past, has been with the sole view of marking my adoration of yourself.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The rapture of Lydia on this occasion, her adoration of Mrs. Forster, the delight of Mrs. Bennet, and the mortification of Kitty, are scarcely to be described.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Personally I felt shy and uncomfortable at this obsequious adoration, and I read the same feeling in the faces of Roxton and Summerlee, but Challenger expanded like a flower in the sun.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There is passion, adoration, in his eyes, and he goes about in a sort of trance, gazing in ecstasy at the swelling sails, the foaming wake, and the heave and the run of her over the liquid mountains that are moving with us in stately procession.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

For the most part, however, Buck’s love was expressed in adoration.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)