adoration

Meanings

1. An act of religious worship.
2. Admiration or esteem.
3. The act of adoring; loving devotion or fascination; an intense love sometimes bordering on veneration or infatuation.
4. The selection of a pope by acclamation and before any formal ballot (excluded as a voting method in 1621 by Pope Gregory XV).
5. Worship of Christ in the Eucharistic host in the Catholic Church, often while exposed in a monstrance.

Etymology

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