different between adoration vs thanksgiving

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).

English

Etymology

thanks +? giving

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æ?ks???v.??/, /??æ?ks???v.??/

Noun

thanksgiving (countable and uncountable, plural thanksgivings)

1. An expression of gratitude.
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IV

     The waters grew suddenly lighter, and my spirits rose accordingly. I shouted down to those below that I saw daylight ahead, and a great shout of thanksgiving reverberated through the ship. A moment later we emerged into sunlit water, and immediately I raised the periscope and looked about me upon the strangest landscape I had ever seen.

2. A short prayer said at meals; grace, a benediction.
3. A public celebration in acknowledgement of divine favour.

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