Noun

(-)

A feeling of fear and reverence.

A feeling of amazement.

* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IV

For several minutes no one spoke; I think they must each have been as overcome by awe as was I. All about us was a flora and fauna as strange and wonderful to us as might have been those upon a distant planet had we suddenly been miraculously transported through ether to an unknown world.

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Noun

(en noun)

(countable) An act of religious worship.

* a. 1779 ,

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.

(uncountable) Admiration or esteem.

* 1890,

...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.

(uncountable) The act of adoring; loving devotion or fascination.

* 1887,

He adored Sorais quite as earnestly as Sir Henry adored Nyleptha, and his adoration had not altogether prospered.