(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.
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.
Ardor
Definition:
(n.) Heat, in a literal sense; as, the ardor of the sun's rays.
(n.) Warmth or heat of passion or affection; eagerness; zeal; as, he pursues study with ardor; the fought with ardor; martial ardor.
(n.) Bright and effulgent spirits; seraphim.
Example Sentences:
(1) The symptoms pain, ardor, itching and paresthesia were evaluated asking to patients.
(2) It is suggested that this syndrome be referred to as "athymhormia syndrome" (from the Greek roots thumos: mood and horme: ardor, spirit, élan), a term coined by Dide and Guiraud to define the behavior of some schizophrenics, ascribed by these authors to a disruption of the so-called "hormothymic system" that they proposed to locate to subcortical brain structures.
(3) Results showed a rapid relief from pain (p less than 0.05), ardor (p less than 0.01) and paresthesia (p less than 0.001) and also accelerated healing of vesicles in patients treated with interferon.
(4) The ardor of Paul’s hardcore supporters remained.
(5) Local tolerance was very good, but burning was reported by 1 patient, burning and itching by 1, and ardor and irritation by one.