Word Meanings - ADOREMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of adoring; adoration. Sir T. Browne.

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• ADORABILITY
  Adorableness.
• ADORE
  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. 1. To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors to; to honor as deity or as divine. Smollett. 2.
• ADORNINGLY
  By adorning; decoratively.
• ADORNATION
  Adornment.
• ADORN
  Adorned; decorated. Milton.
• ADOREMENT
  The act of adoring; adoration. Sir T. Browne.
• ADORNMENT
  An adorning; an ornament; a decoration.
• ADORNER
  He who, or that which, adorns; a beautifier.
• ADORABLE
  1. Deserving to be adored; worthy of divine honors. The adorable Author of Christianity. Cheyne. 2. Worthy of the utmost love or respect.
• 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;
• ADORABLY
  In an adorable manner.
• ADORINGLY
  With adoration.
• ADORER
  One who adores; a worshiper; one who admires or loves greatly; an ardent admirer. "An adorer of truth." Clarendon. I profess myself her adorer, not her friend. Shak.
• ADORABLENESS
  The quality of being adorable, or worthy of adoration. Johnson.
• PEGADOR
  A species of remora . See Remora.
• AMBASSADORIAL
  Of or pertaining to an ambassador. H. Walpole.
• VOLADOR
  A flying fish of California : -- called also volator. The Atlantic flying gurnard. See under Flying.
• MATADORE; MATADOR
  In the game of quadrille or omber, the three principal trumps, the ace of spades being the first, the ace of clubs the third, and the second being the deuce of a black trump or the seven of a red one. When Lady Tricksey played a four, You took it
• RONCADOR
  Any one of several species of California sciænoid food fishes, especially Roncador Stearnsi, which is an excellent market fish, and the red roncador . (more info) in allusion to the grunting noise made by them on being taken from
• LABRADOR
  A region of British America on the Atlantic coast, north of Newfoundland. Labrador duck , a sea duck (Camtolaimus Labradorius) allied to the eider ducks. It was formerly common on the coast of New England, but is now supposed to be extinct, no
• MIRADOR
  See BELVEDERE
• RODOMONTADOR
  A rodomontadist.
• LABRADORITE
  A kind of feldspar commonly showing a beautiful play of colors, and hence much used for ornamental purposes. The finest specimens come from Labrador. See Feldspar.
• DISADORN
  To deprive of ornaments. Congreve.
• DUMMADOR
  A dumbledor.