adoration

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French adoration, from Latin adōrātiō, adōrātiōnem (“worship, adoration”), from adōrō (“beseech; adore, worship”), from ad (“to, towards”) + ōrō (“beg”). adore + -ation

noun

1. (countable, religion) An 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. a. 1779, David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
2. (uncountable) Admiration or esteem.
3. (uncountable) The act of adoring; loving devotion or fascination.
4. (historical) The selection of a pope by acclamation and before any formal ballot (excluded as a voting method in 1621 by Pope Gregory XV).
5. (religion) Worship of Christ in the Eucharistic host in the Catholic Church, often while exposed in a monstrance.