Adoration \Ad`o*ra"tion\, n. [L. adoratio, fr. adorare: cf. F. adoration.] 1. The act of playing honor to a divine being; the worship paid to God; the act of addressing as a god.
The more immediate objects of popular adoration amongst the heathens were deified human beings. --Farmer.
2. Homage paid to one in high esteem; profound veneration; intense regard and love; fervent devotion.
3. A method of electing a pope by the expression of homage from two thirds of the conclave.
[Pole] might have been chosen on the spot by adoration. --Froude.
The band, which had six top 10 hits and a popular television series from 1966 to 1968, has captured the adoration of 1980s teens through a revival of its show on cable television.
Perhaps the most readily distorted aspect of the novel is Tom's adoration of Eva, the consumptive child of his kind but irresolute master, Augustine St. Clare.
The only possible recipient of all that love and adoration and all those fervid prayers is right here - yes, um, in our own tummies.' So he must go.
She calls him the Orson Welles of the field, since he reached an early zenith with a book that outraged development professionals and won adoration from undergraduates.
'I accepted his rule, as did everyone, with fear and reverence and distant adoration.
McNally's play deals with the comic and tragic sides of obsession, in this case the adoration of opera star Maria Callas.