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noun a feeling of profound love and admiration
noun the act of admiring strongly
noun the worship given to God alone
originBorrowed from Middle French adoration, from Latin adōrātiō, adōrātiōnem (“worship, adoration”), from adōrō (“beseech; adore, worship”), from ad (“to, towards”) + ōrō (“beg”). From adore + -ation.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0