Care_for vs Adore - What's the difference?
care_for | adore | Related terms |
To attend to the needs of, especially in the manner of a nurse or personal aide.
To like or appreciate; to consider to be appealing, tasteful, or suitable.
* 1719 , , "To Dr. Sheridan" (14 Dec.), in The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Vol. 2 (ed. W. E. Browning):
* 1919 , , Night and Day , ch. 5:
* 2006 , Unmesh Kher, "
To worship.
*(Tobias Smollett) (1721–1771)
*:Bishops and priests,bearing the host, which he [James] publicly adored .
To love with one's entire heart and soul; regard with deep respect and affection.
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* (1800-1859)
*:The great mass of the population abhorred Popery and adored Montouth.
To be very fond of.
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*:"I ought to arise and go forth with timbrels and with dances; but, do you know, I am not inclined to revels? There has been a little—just a very little bit too much festivity so far …. Not that I don't adore dinners and gossip and dances; not that I do not love to pervade bright and glittering places."
(lb) To adorn.
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:Like to the hore / Congealed drops, which do the morn adore .
Care_for is a related term of adore.
As verbs the difference between care_for and adore
is that care_for is to attend to the needs of, especially in the manner of a nurse or personal aide while adore is .care_for
English
Verb
- I cared for my ailing mother for five years.
- Mrs. Dingley and Mrs. Johnson say, truly they don't care for your wife's company, though they like your wine.
- "Do you really care for this kind of thing?" he asked at length.
Whale On the Plate," Time , 17 April:
- Still, while most Japanese may not care for the meat, many object to calls to stop whaling.
