adoration

IPA: ædɝˈeɪʃʌn

(countable, religion) An act of religious worship.
(uncountable) Admiration or esteem.
(uncountable) The act of adoring; loving devotion or fascination.
(historical) The selection of a pope by acclamation and before any formal ballot (excluded as a voting method in 1621 by Pope Gregory XV).
(Christianity) Worship of Christ in the Eucharistic host in the Catholic Church, often while exposed in a monstrance.

Examples of "adoration" in Sentences

O Lord, to kneel in adoration before Yourdivinity incarnate in this world.
The blind adoration is getting old, he's the leader of the free world, not a rockstar.
So one network out of all of them has the audacity not to fall in adoration at his feet.
Horace does not say that he adores Lalage; Tibullus does not adore Delia; nor is even the term adoration to be found in Petronius.
The Count de Beaunoir still continues to be particular, in what he calls his adoration of me; but his tone and style are too romantic to authorize me in any serious remonstrance.