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a⋅dore

  [uh-dawr, uh-dohr] verb, a⋅dored, a⋅dor⋅ing.
Use adore in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor.
2. to pay divine honor to; worship: to adore God.
3. to like or admire very much: I simply adore the way your hair is done!
–verb (used without object)
4. to worship.
Origin:
1275–1325; < L adōrāre to speak to, pray, worship, equiv. to ad- ad- + ōrāre to speak, beg (see oral ); r. ME aour(i)e < OF aourer < L

Related forms:
a⋅dor⋅er, noun
a⋅dor⋅ing⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
1. idolize; reverence, revere, venerate.

Antonyms:
1. abhor.
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a·dore   (ə-dôr', ə-dōr')   
v.   a·dored, a·dor·ing, a·dores

v.   tr.
  1. To worship as God or a god.
  2. To regard with deep, often rapturous love. See Synonyms at revere1.
  3. To like very much: adores mink coats.
v.   intr.
To worship.

[Middle English adouren, from Old French adourer, from Latin adōrāre, to pray to : ad-, ad- + ōrāre, to pray.]
a·dor'er n., a·dor'ing·ly adv.
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Adore

A*dore"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adored ; p. pr. & vb. n. Adoring.] [OE. aouren, anouren, adoren, OF. aorer, adorer, F. adorer, fr. L. adorare; ad + orare to speak, pray, os, oris, mouth. In OE. confused with honor, the French prefix a- being confused with OE. a, an, on. See Oral.]

1. To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors to; to honor as deity or as divine.

Bishops and priests, . . . bearing the host, which he [James ?.] publicly adored. --Smollett.

2. To love in the highest degree; to regard with the utmost esteem and affection; to idolize.

The great mass of the population abhorred Popery and adored Montouth. --Macaulay.

Adore

A*dore"\, v. t. To adorn. [Obs.]

Congealed little drops which do the morn adore. --Spenser.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : adore
Spanish: adorar,
German: anbeten,
Japanese: 熱愛する
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adore 
c.1305, from O.Fr. aourer "to adore, worship," from L. adorare "speak to formally, beseech," in L.L. "to worship," from ad- "to" + orare "speak formally, pray" (see orator).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Adore

to worship; to express reverence and homage. The forms of adoration among the Jews were putting off the shoes (Ex. 3:5; Josh. 5:15), and prostration (Gen. 17:3; Ps. 95:6; Isa. 44:15, 17, 19; 46:6). To "kiss the Son" in Ps. 2:12 is to adore and worship him. (See Dan. 3:5, 6.) The word itself does not occur in Scripture.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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