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adoration

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French adoration, from Latin ad?r?ti?, ad?r?ti?nem (worship, adoration), from ad?r? (beseech; adore, worship), from ad (to, towards) + ?r? (beg).adore +? -ation

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?æ.d???e?.??n/
  • Rhymes: -e???n
  • Hyphenation: ad?o?ra?tion

Noun

adoration (countable and uncountable, plural adorations)

  1. (countable) An act of religious worship.
    • a. 1779, David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
      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.
  2. (uncountable) Admiration or esteem.
    • 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
      [] 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.
  3. (uncountable) The act of adoring; loving devotion or fascination.
    • 1887, H. Rider Haggard, Allan Quatermain
      He adored Sorais quite as earnestly as Sir Henry adored Nyleptha, and his adoration had not altogether prospered.
  4. (historical) The selection of a pope by acclamation and before any formal ballot (excluded as a voting method in 1621 by Pope Gregory XV).

Antonyms

  • disdain

Related terms

  • adorational

Translations


French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ad?r?ti?, ad?r?ti?nem (worship, adoration), from ad?r? (beseech; adore, worship), from ad (to, towards) + ?r? (beg).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.d?.?a.sj??/
  • Homophone: adorations
  • Hyphenation: a?do?ra?tion

Noun

adoration f (plural adorations)

  1. adoration
  2. (religion) adoration

Related terms

  • adorer

Further reading

  • “adoration” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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amazement

English

Etymology

amaze +? -ment

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??me?z.m?nt/
  • Rhymes: -e?zm?nt

Noun

amazement (countable and uncountable, plural amazements)

  1. (uncountable) The condition of being amazed; a state of overwhelming wonder, as from surprise or sudden fear, horror, or admiration; astonishment.
  2. (countable, archaic) A particular feeling of wonder, surprise, fear, or horror.
    • 1682, Samuel Willard, The fiery tryal no strange thing, Samuel Sewell, Boston, p. 16,
      Were believers thoroughly persuaded of what God meaneth, by these things, they would not be so liable to those frights and amazements which distract and disturb them.
    • 1791, "Character of the faithful Man," in Aphorisms concerning the Assurance of Faith, W. Young, Philadelphia, p. 60,
      In the midst of ill rumours and amazements, his countenance changeth not.
  3. (countable, dated) Something which amazes.
    • 1918, Christopher Morley, "The Urchin at the Zoo," in Mince Pie,
      I believe the Urchin showed more enthusiasm over the stone and the robin than over any of the amazements that succeeded them.
  4. (obsolete) Madness, frenzy.

Translations

References

  • Webster, Noah (1828) , “amazement”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language
  • amazement in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • “amazement” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
  • "amazement" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus (Wordsmyth, 2002)
  • "amazement" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
  • Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
  • Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996)

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