LekhoriLekhoriAn act of religious worship.
We incessantly look forward, and endeavour, by prayers, adoration, and sacrifice, to appease those unknown powers, whom we find, by experience, so able to afflict and oppress us.
Admiration or esteem.
[…] if she can create the sense of beauty in people whose lives have been sordid and ugly...she is worthy of all your adoration, worthy of the adoration of the world.
The act of adoring; loving devotion or fascination.
He adored Sorais quite as earnestly as Sir Henry adored Nyleptha, and his adoration had not altogether prospered.
Borrowed from Middle French adoration, from Latin adōrātiō, adōrātiōnem (“worship, adoration”), from adōrō (“beseech; adore, worship”), from ad (“to, towards”) + ōrō (“beg”). From adore + -ation.
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