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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adore
verb: love intensely; "he just adored his wife"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
adore \a*dore"\ ([.a]*d[=o]r"), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {adored}
([.a]*d[=o]rd"); p. pr. & vb. n. {adoring}
([.a]*d[=o]r"[i^]ng).] [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 a deity or as divine.
Bishops and priests, . . . bearing the host, which
he [James II.] 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 Monmouth. --Macaulay.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Adore \A*dore"\, verb (used with an object)
To adorn. [Obs.]
Congealed little drops which do the morn adore.
--Spenser.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
73 Moby Thesaurus words for "adore":
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
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
ADORE, v.t. To venerate expectantly.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Adore
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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