Consecrated vs Adored - What's the difference?
consecrated | adored | Related terms |
(consecrate)
To declare, or otherwise make something holy.
* 1863 November 19, Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address, based on the signed "Bliss Copy"
Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred.
* Francis Bacon
(adore)
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 .
Consecrated is a related term of adored.
As verbs the difference between consecrated and adored
is that consecrated is (consecrate) while adored is (adore).consecrated
English
Verb
(head)consecrate
English
Verb
(consecrat)- But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate', we can not hallow, this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have ' consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.
Synonyms
* * * (l)Antonyms
* desecrate * defileAdjective
(en adjective)- They were assembled in that consecrate place.
