different between adore vs reverence

English

Etymology

From Middle English *adoren, aouren, from Old French adorer, aorer, from Latin ad?r?, from ad (“to”) + ?r? (“I speak”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?dô?, IPA^(key): /??d??/
• (General American) enPR: ?dôr?, IPA^(key): /??d??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ?d?r?, IPA^(key): /??do(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /??do??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Hyphenation: adore

Verb

adore (third-person singular simple present adores, present participle adoring, simple past and past participle adored)

1. To worship.
   • c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act I, Scene 4,^[1]

     Now, gods that we adore, whereof comes this?

   • 1758, Tobias Smollett, A Complete History of England, London: James Rivington and James Fletcher, 3rd edition, Volume 6, Book 8, “William III,” p. 29,^[2]

     [James] was met at the castle-gate by a procession of […] bishops and priests in their pontificals, bearing the host, which he publicly adored.

   • 1852, Frederick Oakeley (translator), “O Come, All Ye Faithful” in Francis H. Murray, A Hymnal for Use in the English Church,^[3]

     Come and behold him

     Born the King of Angels:

     O come, let us adore Him,

     Christ the Lord.

   Antonym: disdain

2. To love with one's entire heart and soul; regard with deep respect and affection.
   • 1849, Thomas Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James II, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Volume I, Chapter 5, p. 388,^[4]

     The great mass of the population abhorred Popery and adored Monmouth.

   Antonym: disdain

3. To be very fond of.

   • "I ought to arise and go forth with timbrels and with dances; but, do you know, I am not inclined to revels? There has been a little—just a very little bit too much festivity so far …. Not that I don't adore dinners and gossip and dances; not that I do not love to pervade bright and glittering places. […]"

4. (obsolete) To adorn.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 4, Canto 11, p. ,^[5]

     […] and likewise on her hed

     A Chapelet of sundry flowers she wore,

     From vnder which the deawy humour shed,

     Did tricle downe her haire, like to the hore

     Congealed litle drops, which doe the morne adore.

   Antonym: disdain

Derived terms

Related terms

• adorable
• adoration

Translations

Anagrams

• E-road, O'Dare, Roade, dorea, oared, oread

Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.do.?e/

Noun

adore

1. energy
2. courage

Declension

Synonyms

• kemen

Derived terms

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.d??/
• Rhymes: -??

Verb

adore

1. first/third-person singular present indicative of adorer
2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of adorer
3. second-person singular imperative of adorer

Anagrams

• éroda

Galician

Verb

adore

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of adorar

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French adorer (“worship, adore”).

Verb

adore

1. adore
2. worship

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?a.do.re/, [?äd????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?a.do.re/, [???d????]
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a?do?.re/, [ä?d?o???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a?do.re/, [??d?????]

Noun

adore or ad?re n

1. ablative singular of ador

Portuguese

Verb

adore

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of adorar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of adorar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of adorar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of adorar

Romanian

Verb

adore

1. third-person singular/third-person plural present subjunctive of adora

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?do?e/, [a?ð?o.?e]

Verb

adore

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of adorar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of adorar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of adorar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of adorar.

English

Etymology

From Old French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???v.?.??ns/, /???v.??ns/
• Hyphenation: rev?er?ence

Noun

reverence (countable and uncountable, plural reverences)

1. Veneration; profound awe and respect, normally in a sacred context.
2. An act of showing respect, such as a bow.
   • August 2, 1758, Oliver Goldsmith, A Letter from a Traveller

     Make twenty reverences upon receiving […] about twopence.

3. The state of being revered.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Seditions and Troubles

     When discords, and quarrels, and factions, are carried openly and audaciously, it is a sign the reverence of government is lost.

4. A form of address for some members of the clergy.

   your reverence

5. That which deserves or exacts manifestations of reverence; reverend character; dignity; state.

Antonyms

• contempt
• blasphemy
• profanity

Derived terms

• reverent (a)
• revere (v)
• reverently (adv)
• save-reverence, sir-reverence, saving your reverence

Translations

Verb

reverence (third-person singular simple present reverences, present participle reverencing, simple past and past participle reverenced)

1. (transitive) To show or feel reverence to.

   Synonyms: honour, venerate

Translations

Middle French

Noun

reverence f (usually uncountable, plural reverences)

1. respect