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ADORATION | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
Yet what they shared was a remarkable ability to rise in the weakly institutionalised society of the late imperial intelligentsia, gaining as well the adoration of many of their contemporaries.
When we use the term 'worship ' in describing a religious person's veneration of a saint or a child's adoration of a sibling we are using it analogically.
Uwe grew up in his brother's shadow as he experienced the adoration heaped by friends and family on his fallen brother, who died, in their eyes, a 'war hero'.
Third, there is this difference : the religious practices are directed at an appropriate object of intense adoration and devotion, what we might call ' maximal ' worship.
But when a resplendent inner self pierces the grossness that envelops it, some, quite irrationally, extend it heartfelt adoration; others, just as irrationally, try heart and soul to insult it.
We see an almost desperate adoration of great wealth and ostentatious luxury.
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Not only for life in this world; it is ultimately an education for adoration.
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Children of three and four and under can be passionately in love, and to adoration is a very short step.
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Could we see a little less of licence in our adoration of the principle of freedom?
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Is there really, in these days of materialism and scepticism, any real danger of adoration or of undue worship of sacred things?
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Reservation under conditions that lead to adoration was one of the illegal practices.
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