adoration Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a feeling of profound love and admiration
    worship.
  2. noun the act of admiring strongly
    idolization; idolisation.
  3. noun the worship given to God alone
    latria.

WordNet

Ad`o*ra"tion noun
Etymology
L. adoratio, fr. adorare: cf. F. adoration.
Definitions
  1. The act of playing honor to a divine being; the worship paid to God; the act of addressing as a god.
    The more immediate objects of popular adoration amongst the heathens were deified human beings. Farmer.
  2. Homage paid to one in high esteem; profound veneration; intense regard and love; fervent devotion.
  3. A method of electing a pope by the expression of homage from two thirds of the conclave.
    [Pole] might have been chosen on the spot by adoration. Froude.

Webster 1913