Definition of "adoration" []

• The act of worship. (noun)
• Profound love or regard. (noun)

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• "Horace does not say that he adores Lalage; Tibullus does not adore Delia; nor is even the term adoration to be found in Petronius."
• "The Count de Beaunoir still continues to be particular, in what he calls his adoration of me; but his tone and style are too romantic to authorize me in any serious remonstrance."
• "So one network out of all of them has the audacity not to fall in adoration at his feet."