Definitions
the worship given to God alone
Word origin
Borrowed from Middle French adoration, from Latin adōrātiō, adōrātiōnem (“worship, adoration”), from adōrō (“beseech; adore, worship”), from ad (“to, towards”) + ōrō (“beg”).
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“[…] 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.”
“Because of Gerald's adoration for Katie, he was blind to her flaws.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Deep worship”9 letters
Not quite right?
"Search similar patterns."
A________