Word Meanings - ADORATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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;

Additional info about word: 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. might have been chosen on the spot by adoration. Froude.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ADORATION)

• Reverence
• Honor
• awe
• veneration
• adoration
• deference
• devotion
• respect
• worship
• homage
• Veneration

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ADORATION)

• Overlook
• disregard
• dishonor
• despise
• contemn
• Abominate
• loathe

Related words: (words related to ADORATION)

• WORSHIPFUL
  Entitled to worship, reverence, or high respect; claiming respect; worthy of honor; -- often used as a term of respect, sometimes ironically. "This is worshipful society." Shak. so dear and worshipful. Chaucer. -- Wor"ship*ful*ly, adv.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• HONORABLE
  1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
• WORSHIPABLE
  Capable of being worshiped; worthy of worship. Carlyle.
• DEVOTIONALLY
  In a devotional manner; toward devotion.
• HONORABLENESS
  1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness.
• RESPECT
  An expression of respect of deference; regards; as, to send one's respects to another. 4. Reputation; repute. Many of the best respect in Rome. Shak. 5. Relation; reference; regard. They believed but one Supreme Deity, which, with respect to the
• RESPECTER
  One who respects. A respecter of persons, one who regards or judges with partiality. Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts x.
• CONTEMNER
  One who contemns; a despiser; a scorner. "Contemners of the gods." South.
• VENERATION
  The act of venerating, or the state of being venerated; the highest degree of respect and reverence; respect mingled with awe; a feeling or sentimental excited by the dignity, wisdom, or superiority of a person, by sacredness of character,
• HONOR
  1. Esteem due or paid to worth; high estimation; respect; consideration; reverence; veneration; manifestation of respect or reverence. A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country. Matt. xiii.
• OVERLOOK
  1. To look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to rise above, so as to command a view of; as, to overlook a valley from a hill. "The pile o'erlooked the town." Dryden. with burning eye did
• HONORARY
  1. Done as a sign or evidence of honor; as, honorary services. Macaulay. 2. Conferring honor, or intended merely to confer honor without emolument; as, an honorary degree. "Honorary arches." Addison. 3. Holding a title or place without rendering
• DISHONOR
  The nonpayment or nonacceptance of commercial paper by the party on whom it is drawn. Syn. -- Disgrace; ignominy; shame; censure; reproach; opprobrium. (more info) deshonur, F. déshonneur; pref. des- + honor, honur, F. 1. Lack of honor;
• HOMAGE
  A symbolical acknowledgment made by a feudal tenant to, and in the presence of, his lord, on receiving investiture of fee, or coming to it by succession, that he was his man, or vassal; profession of fealty to a sovereign. 2. Respect or reverential
• ABOMINATE
  To turn from as ill-omened; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread; loathe; as, to abominate all impiety. Syn. -- To hate; abhor; loathe; detest. See Hate.
• DISREGARD
  Not to regard; to pay no heed to; to omit to take notice of; to neglect to observe; to slight as unworthy of regard or notice; as, to disregard the admonitions of conscience. Studious of good, man disregarded fame. Blackmore.
• DESPISEMENT
  A despising. Holland.
• DEVOTIONAL
  Pertaining to, suited to, or used in, devotion; as, a devotional posture; devotional exercises; a devotional frame of mind.
• RESPECTABILITY
  The state or quality of being respectable; the state or quality which deserves or commands respect.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• MISWORSHIP
  Wrong or false worship; mistaken practices in religion. Bp. Hall. Such hideous jungle of misworships. Carlyle.
• SELF-DEVOTION
  The act of devoting one's self, or the state of being self- devoted; willingness to sacrifice one's own advantage or happiness for the sake of others; self-sacrifice.
• SELF-WORSHIP
  The idolizing of one's self; immoderate self-conceit.
• BY-RESPECT
  Private end or view; by-interest. Dryden.
• UNREVERENCE
  Absence or lack of reverence; irreverence. Wyclif.
• UNWORSHIP
  To deprive of worship or due honor; to dishonor. Wyclif.
• UNRESPECT
  Disrespect. "Unrespect of her toil." Bp. Hall.
• DISRESPECT
  Want of respect or reverence; disesteem; incivility; discourtesy. Impatience of bearing the least affront or disrespect. Pope.
• DISREVERENCE
  To treat irreverently or with disrespect. Sir T. More.