adore

[a·dore]

Someone you adore gets put on a pedestal. Considering your fear of germs, when you told me that you had shared a toothbrush I knew you must adore her!

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To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors to; to honor as deity or as divine.

Verb
love intensely; "he just adored his wife"


v. t.
To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors to; to honor as deity or as divine.

v. t.
To love in the highest degree; to regard with the utmost esteem and affection; to idolize.

v. t.
To adorn.


Adore

A*dore" , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adored ; p. pr. & vb. n. Adoring .] [OE. aouren, anouren, adoren, OF. aorer, adorer, F. adorer, fr. L. 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. See Oral.] 1. To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors to; to honor as deity or as divine.
Bishops and priests, . . . bearing the host, which he [James .] publicly adored.
2. To love in the highest degree; to regard with the utmost esteem and affection; to idolize.
The great mass of the population abhorred Popery and adored Montouth.

Adore

A*dore", v. t. To adorn. [Obs.]
Congealed little drops which do the morn adore.

To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors to; to honor as deity or as divine.

To adorn.

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Usage Examples

At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too.

Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic.

Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star restaurants, and has almost the same opinions. I adore the art world, but this is copycat behavior in a sphere that prides itself on independent thinking.

With all the hybrid stuff and things like that, I think that's a fabulous direction to go with cars in that sense. As someone who grew up around muscle cars, I'll never not be able to not love a muscle car. Not that I don't care about the environment, that's not it. But I adore muscle cars.

I'd love to be an artist that's multifaceted. At the moment, I am not. But wouldn't that be cool if I was like, 'Yeah, let me pull out my guitar and play you a song.' I would adore that. I am so far not gifted in that way. But I am a very hard worker and a very determined person, so who knows?

I adore this adventure, I adore working with youth. For me it's a daily challenge, working to help these youths realize their dreams.

I'm not much of a family man. I'm just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I don't want to live my life for them.

I adore food and always have.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

It's a wonderful thing working with young actors. I know a lot of people don't like working with children. I actually adore it, because you watch their imagination open up and you watch them start to learn this job that I've been doing for so long. They come with such a lack of cynicism.

There are fathers who do not love their children there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.

What people adore about superhero movies is the signal quality of the Christopher Nolan films - their complete lack of irony when it comes to the portrayal of heroism and the need for heroes to confront evil.

I adore adverbs they are the only qualifications I really much respect.

I only travel to good material, a good director and a good company. I won't work in another country for a year any longer, because I have a lovely wife and I adore her and I can't bear to be away from her.

I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself.

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