adorer

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Noun

adorer (plural adorers)

1. Someone who adores.
   1. Someone who worships.
      • 1582, Gregory Martin (scholar) (translator), Douay-Rheims Version, Reims: John Fogny, Gospel of John 4.23, p. 226,

        But the houre commeth, and now it is, when the true adorers shal adore the Father in spirit and veritie.

      • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, London, Book 8, lines 140-143,

        […] I in one Night freed

        From servitude inglorious welnigh half

        Th’ Angelic Name, and thinner left the throng

        Of his adorers […]

      • 1798, Thomas Paine, Atheism Refuted, London: J. Johnson, p. 17,

        All men in the outset of the religion they profess are adorers of a God, and friends of man.

      Synonyms: devotee, worshipper
   2. Someone who has a deep admiration, fondness or love (of someone or something).
      • circa 1609, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act I, Scene 4,

        […] I profess myself her adorer, not her friend.

      • 1732, George Berkeley, Alciphron (book), Dublin: G. Risk et al., Volume 2, Dialogue 6, Chapter 32, p. 83,

        I who profess my self an Admirer, an Adorer of Reason, am obliged to own, that in some Cases the Sharpness of Ridicule can do more than the Strength of Argument.

      • 1871, W. S. Gilbert, “Old Paul and Old Tim” in Bab Ballads, London: Routledge, 1892, p. 164,

        When rival adorers come courting a maid,

        There’s something or other may often be said,

        Why he should be pitched upon rather than him.

        This wasn’t the case with Old PAUL and Old TIM.

      • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, London: Picador, Chapter 13, p. 403,

        The funny thing was that all the envelopes were addressed in the same hand, in green or sometimes purple capitals. It was like one crazed adorer laying siege to Leo.

      Synonyms: admirer

Translations

• Portuguese: adorador
• Spanish: adorador

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