Meaning of ADORE
| Pronunciation: | | u'dowr
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| | Definition: | | [v] love intensely; "he just adored his wife" |
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| | See Also: | | hero-worship, idolise, idolize, love, revere, worship | |
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| | Definition: | | Adore
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\A*dore"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adored ; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Adoring}.] [OE. aouren, anouren, adoren, OF. aorer, adorer,
F. adorer, fr. L. adorare; ad + orare to speak, pray, os,
oris, mouth. In OE. confused with honor, the French prefix a-
being confused with OE. a, an, on. See {Oral}.]
1. To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors
to; to honor as deity or as divine.
Bishops and priests, . . . bearing the host, which
he [James ?.] publicly adored. --Smollett.
2. To love in the highest degree; to regard with the utmost
esteem and affection; to idolize.
The great mass of the population abhorred Popery and
adored Montouth. --Macaulay.
\A*dore"\, v. t.
To adorn. [Obs.]
Congealed little drops which do the morn adore.
--Spenser.
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| Easton Bible Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | to worship; to express reverence and homage. The forms of adoration among the Jews were putting off the shoes (Ex. 3:5; Josh. 5:15), and prostration (Gen. 17:3; Ps. 95:6; Isa. 44:15, 17, 19; 46:6). To "kiss the Son" in Ps. 2:12 is to adore and worship him. (See Dan. 3:5, 6.) The word itself does not occur in Scripture. |
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| | Related Terms: | | accord respect to, admire, adulate, affection, apotheosize, appreciate, bask in, be pleased with, cherish, coddle, dearly love, defer to, deify, delight in, derive pleasure from, devour, do homage to, do service, dote, dote on, eat up, enjoy, entertain respect for, esteem, exalt, extol, fancy, favor, feast on, freak out on, get high on, gloat over, groove on, hallow, hero-worship, hold dear, hold in esteem, hold in reverence, honor, idolize, indulge, indulge in, laud, like, look up to, love, love to distraction, luxuriate in, pamper, pay homage to, praise, prize, regard, rejoice in, relish, respect, revel in, revere, reverence, riot in, savor, smack the lips, spoil, swim in, take pleasure in, think highly of, think much of, think well of, treasure, value, venerate, wallow in, worship |
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