different between deference vs adoration
deference
English
Etymology
From French déférence
Morphologically defer +? -ence.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?d?f???ns/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?d?.f?.?ns/, /?d?.f??ns/
Noun
deference (countable and uncountable, plural deferences)
- Great respect.
- The children treated their elders with deference.
- The willingness to carry out the wishes of others.
- By tidying his room, he showed deference to his mother.
Synonyms
- honor
- respect
Translations
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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)
- (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.
- a. 1779, David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
- (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.
- 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
- (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.
- 1887, H. Rider Haggard, Allan Quatermain
- (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)
- adoration
- (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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