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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
accord respect to, admire, adulate, affection, apotheosize, appreciate, bask in, be pleased with, cherish, coddle, dearly love, defer to, deify, delight in, derive pleasure from, devour, do homage to, do service, dote, dote on, eat up, enjoy, entertain respect for, esteem, exalt, extol, fancy, favor, feast on, freak out on, get high on, gloat over, groove on, hallow, hero-worship, hold dear, hold in esteem, hold in reverence, honor, idolize, indulge, indulge in, laud, like, look up to, love, love to distraction, luxuriate in, pamper, pay homage to, praise, prize, regard, rejoice in, relish, respect, revel in, revere, reverence, riot in, savor, smack the lips, spoil, swim in, take pleasure in, think highly of, think much of, think well of, treasure, value, venerate, wallow in, worship
Dictionary Results for adore:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
adore
    v 1: love intensely; "he just adored his wife"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Adore \A*dore"\, v. t.
   To adorn. [Obs.]
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         Congealed little drops which do the morn adore.
                                                  --Spenser.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
adore \a*dore"\ ([.a]*d[=o]r"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. adored
   ([.a]*d[=o]rd"); p. pr. & vb. n. adoring
   ([.a]*d[=o]r"[i^]ng).] [OE. aouren, anouren, adoren, OF.
   aorer, adorer, F. adorer, fr. L. adorare; ad + orare to
   speak, pray, os, oris, mouth. In OE. confused with honor, the
   French prefix a- being confused with OE. a, an, on. See
   Oral.]
   1. To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors
      to; to honor as a deity or as divine.
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            Bishops and priests, . . . bearing the host, which
            he [James II.] publicly adored.       --Smollett.
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   2. To love in the highest degree; to regard with the utmost
      esteem and affection; to idolize.
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            The great mass of the population abhorred Popery and
            adored Monmouth.                      --Macaulay.
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4. Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
Adore
   to worship; to express reverence and homage. The forms of
   adoration among the Jews were putting off the shoes (Ex. 3:5;
   Josh. 5:15), and prostration (Gen. 17:3; Ps. 95:6; Isa. 44:15,
   17, 19; 46:6). To "kiss the Son" in Ps. 2:12 is to adore and
   worship him. (See Dan. 3:5, 6.) The word itself does not occur
   in Scripture.
   

5. The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906)
ADORE, v.t.  To venerate expectantly.


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