(n.) The act of playing honor to a divine being; the worship paid to God; the act of addressing as a god.
(n.) Homage paid to one in high esteem; profound veneration; intense regard and love; fervent devotion.
(n.) A method of electing a pope by the expression of homage from two thirds of the conclave.
Example Sentences:
(1) "My wonderful, brave and adored father, Jack Ashley, Lord Ashley of Stoke, has died after a short battle with pneumonia."
(2) But how and when would the boozy, workshy, adorable slob who had spent 30 years twice a week in millions of British living rooms go?
(3) If the experts are correct, he will elaborate this homespun philosophy before a necessarily adoring congress, confirming that it replaces his father’s songun (“military first”) mantera.
(4) True, that comment was made early in Guardiola’s spell as Bayern manager and perhaps it was just a way of endearing himself to his new captain, but there is no doubt the former Barcelona manager adores Lahm.
(5) "When Lee was born the family adored him, he was a precious gift given to us."
(6) I adore them all, from the grand level of chaining yourself to a building to the less high-maintenance, where you can pop home for your tea.
(7) Mood Indigo (18 July) Arguably the most French movie ever made, Romain Duris and Audrey Tautou are quite adorable as fairy tale lovers in Michel Gondry's adaptation of Boris Vian's Froth on the Daydream.
(8) Her family said Boden was “loved and adored by her family, friends and boyfriend”.
(9) I adored Chez Elles in Brick Lane's Banglatown; and Otto's , on Gray's Inn Road, looks set to be the capital's next insider secret, with a menu that doesn't appear to have met the 21st century: it does canard à la presse, for goodness sake.
(10) Wilson, though, quick to adopt new personas, and adapt to new circumstances, adored the attention, and shrewdly exploited his role as local minor celebrity when it came to what he was really interested in - helping Manchester to recreate itself as a major city, with its radical, inventive and progressive traditions intact.
(11) Where we revere and anthropomorphise such brutal predators as sharks, tigers and bears, we view these tiny ectoparasites as worthless, an evolutionary accident with no redeeming or adorable characteristics.
(12) At the place where adorable meets obnoxious and the purr becomes a shriek, Leslie Mann is waiting to unload a howitzer of funny in your face.
(13) Pinter adores poetry, would perhaps have preferred his poetry to have taken precedence over his plays, and his prose often has the compression and musicality of poetry, what he calls the "question of rhythm".
(14) The digestive system of the Ophryoscolescides includes different parts : the adoral ciliary zone, the cytostome, the oesophagus, the endoplasm, the rectum and the anus.
(15) How would you describe a person with an adoring sister and admiring father creating a child despised by father and siblings?
(16) While his political allegiances led to the ransacking of his office in 1965, following the coup d'etat the year before that brought the military to power under General Castelo Branco, Niemeyer remained a well known and popular figure among ordinary Brazilians, to whom he was always "Oscar", and evidently adored, although younger generations of Brazilian architects have inevitably felt hidden in his shadow.
(17) Gentile da Fabriano (d 1427) in his Adoration of the Kings, demonstrates a similar response of toe extension in the infant Jesus when one of the Magi kisses the baby's foot.
(18) Babyhood lasts for so little time that I am happy to take the route nature intended and feed my children without using formula and the look of adoration from your baby is worth it.
(19) She began as a ringletted country singer, teenage sweetheart of the American heartland, but between 2006’s eponymous first album and now she’s become the kind of culturally titanic figure adored as much by gnarly rock critics as teenage girls, feminist intellectuals and, well, pretty much all of emotionally sentient humankind.
(20) Marr may have copped flak, but the incident was an early example of how Cameron – an old Etonian who also professes to adore the Jam's coruscating The Eton Rifles – can be light on detail.
Infatuation
Definition:
(n.) The act of infatuating; the state of being infatuated; folly; that which infatuates.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rome in The Great Beauty Released 2013, directed by Paolo Sorrentino Facebook Twitter Pinterest I can’t think of any city so drenched with infatuated love, and yet also a kind of disillusion and disenchantment, as the Rome of Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty .
(2) Beyond court 73 Twitter was abuzz with idle speculation that one of the women lawyers present was clearly infatuated with Grant, effortlessly glamorous and with his spectacles off.
(3) But so far, I perceive a threatening mix of arrogance, self-infatuation and condescension.” It is tempting to see Podemos as a well-planned operation by a group of talented academics, following a populist script written by a line of radical thinkers, but that would be too simple.
(4) Once I got back to the UK, I was infatuated with finding similar adventures here.
(5) Returning to London in my 40s from a long spell abroad brought the shock of London house prices but also an infatuation with Brighton with its sea views, eccentric shops and green surrounding hills.
(6) "US fans of The Office could rally for this one," it admitted, "although its exuberant, boundless cynicism will test the demand for political satire in an Obama-infatuated America."
(7) Sure: it's got daddy issues, it's dominated by male characters, but it allows Lea Thompson as Lorraine to all but steal the show, hamming it up both as a chain-smoking, vodka-sinking washout and an infatuated teen (plus, in II, a surgically enhanced doormat, and, in III, an oirish farmer's wife).
(8) Dr Bill Knocke, head of the civil engineering faculty whose staff and students were among the dead, said he understood that Cho had gone on Monday morning to the dormitory of a female student, Emily Hilscher, 19, who was not his girlfriend but with whom he may have been infatuated.
(9) We failed to notice that our runaway infatuation with the sleek toys produced by the likes of Apple and Samsung – allied to our apparently insatiable appetite for Facebook, Google and other companies that provide us with "free" services in exchange for the intimate details of our daily lives – might well turn out to be as powerful a narcotic as soma was for the inhabitants of Brave New World.
(10) The concept of pathological infatuation or what this author has termed the Blue Angel syndrome is presented.
(11) Born in Swansea, he carved out a career on BBC Radio Wales, before a move to television in the form of Marion and Geoff, a mock-umentary series in which he played a divorced taxi driver still infatuated with his ex-wife; Coogan was the associate producer.
(12) An infatuation that, naturally, died long before Erasure sang about "l'amour" and just as the first crop of Generation Y-ers were beginning school.
(13) So let's remove those rose-tinted ski goggles and take a closer look at the objects of our infatuation … Protesters clash with police at an asylum centre near Copenhagen in 2008.
(14) Maps to The Stars by David Cronenberg is a competition movie avowedly about that most superficially attractive but difficult and elusive subject: celebrity and our current infatuation with it.
(15) The pair of them were so instantly infatuated with each other's possibilities that on their second meeting they planned the Smiths in detail.
(16) And embarrassing as it may be for those of us infatuated with the latest technology to admit, it is with the difficult case especially that old-fashioned technology so often must be depended upon.
(17) Now he's at it again, with another part from which Harry Potter would run a mile: in Kill Your Darlings , he plays gay beat poet Allen Ginsberg , sexually infatuated with the dangerous Lucien Carr .
(18) Joyce suspected her husband was having an affair with Deng, with whom he was reportedly infatuated.
(19) "He's got an earring, he wears leather and you're totally infatuated with him.
(20) Why am I – why is everyone else she knew – so infatuated with Yusor?