Adoration vs Amazement - What's the difference?
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(countable) An act of religious worship.
* a. 1779 ,
(uncountable) Admiration or esteem.
* 1890,
(uncountable) The act of adoring; loving devotion or fascination.
* 1887,
(uncountable) The condition of being amazed; overwhelming wonder, as from surprise, sudden fear, horror, or admiration; astonishment.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=9 (countable, archaic) A particular feeling of wonder, surprise, fear, or horror.
* 1682 , , The fiery tryal no strange thing , Samuel Sewell, Boston, p. 16,
* 1791 , "Character of the faithful Man," in Aphorisms concerning the Assurance of Faith , W. Young, Philadelphia, p. 60,
* 1853 , , Villette , ch. 41,
(countable, dated) Something which amazes.
* 1913 , , The Valley of the Moon , ch. 21,
* 1918 , , "The Urchin at the Zoo," in Mince Pie ,
(obsolete) Madness, frenzy.
In uncountable terms the difference between adoration and amazement
is that adoration is the act of adoring; loving devotion or fascination while amazement is the condition of being amazed; overwhelming wonder, as from surprise, sudden fear, horror, or admiration; astonishment.As nouns the difference between adoration and amazement
is that adoration is an act of religious worship while amazement is the condition of being amazed; overwhelming wonder, as from surprise, sudden fear, horror, or admiration; astonishment.adoration
English
Noun
(en noun)- We incessantly look forward, and endeavour, by prayers, adoration , and sacrifice, to appease those unknown powers, whom we find, by experience, so able to afflict and oppress us.
- ...if she can create the sense of beauty in people whose lives have been sordid and ugly...she is worthy of all your adoration', worthy of the ' adoration of the world.
- He adored Sorais quite as earnestly as Sir Henry adored Nyleptha, and his adoration had not altogether prospered.
amazement
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Noun
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- Were believers thoroughly persuaded of what God meaneth, by these things, they would not be so liable to those frights and amazements which distract and disturb them.
- In the midst of ill rumours and amazements , his countenance changeth not.
- Certain points, crises, certain feelings, joys, griefs and amazements , when reviewed, must strike us as things wildered and whirling.
- So impossible did it seem that such an amazement of horse-flesh could ever be hers.
- I believe the Urchin showed more enthusiasm over the stone and the robin than over any of the amazements that succeeded them.
References
* * * * * "amazement" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus (Wordsmyth, 2002) * "
amazement" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007) * Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989) * Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996)