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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]:
adoring \adoring\ adjective
1. 1 feeling or showing profound respect or veneration. Opposite of {irreverent}.
Syn: worshipful, reverent [WordNet 1.5]
2. 1 feeling or showing a deep love and devotion to. her adoring parents
Syn: doting, fond, lovesome [WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adoring
adjective
1: showing adoration [syn: {worshipful}]
2: extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent; "adoring grandparents"; "deceiving her preoccupied and doting husband with a young captain"; "hopelessly spoiled by a fond mother" [syn: {doting}, {fond}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
65 Moby Thesaurus words for "adoring": Christian, Christianlike, Christianly, admiring, adorant, affectionate, apotheosizing, awed, awestricken, awestruck, believing, conjugal, cultish, cultist, cultistic, deifying, demonstrative, devoted, devotional, devout, dutiful, faithful, filial, fond, hero-worshiping, husbandly, idolatrous, idolizing, imploring, in awe, in the dust, languishing, lovelorn, lovesick, lovesome, loving, maternal, melting, on bended knee, parental, paternal, pietistic, pious, prayerful, precative, precatory, prostrate before, religious, reverent, reverential, romantic, sentimental, soft, solemn, suppliant, supplicant, supplicatory, tender, theistic, uxorious, venerational, venerative, wifely, worshipful, worshiping
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