adore
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (RP) enPR: ədôʹ, IPA: /əˈdɔː/
- (America) enPR: ədôrʹ, IPA: /əˈdɔɹ/
- (rhotic, horse-hoarse) enPR: ədōrʹ, IPA: /əˈdo(ː)ɹ/
- (nonrhotic, horse-hoarse) IPA: /əˈdoə̯/
adore (adores, present participle adoring; past and past participle adored)
- To worship.
- circa 1605 William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act I, Scene 4,
- 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,
- [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,[https://hymnology.hymnsam.co.uk/o/o-come,-all-ye-faithful]
- Come and behold him
- Born the King of Angels:
- O come, let us adore Him,
- Christ the Lord.
- Antonyms: disdain
- circa 1605 William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act I, Scene 4,
- To love with one's entire heart and soul; regard with deep respect and affection.
- It is obvious to everyone that Gerry adores Heather.
- 1849, Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Volume I, Chapter 5, p. 388,
- The great mass of the population abhorred Popery and adored Monmouth.
- Antonyms: disdain
- To be very fond of.
- 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter II, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326 ↗:
- "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. […]"
- (obsolete) To adorn.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 4, Canto 11, p. ,
- […] 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.
- Antonyms: disdain
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 4, Canto 11, p. ,
- French: adorer
- German: anbeten, verehren
- Italian: adorare
- Portuguese: adorar
- Russian: боготвори́ть
- Spanish: adorar
- French: adorer
- German: anbeten, verehren
- Italian: adorare
- Portuguese: amar
- Russian: обожа́ть
- Spanish: querer
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