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adore
/əˈdoɹ/
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What does adore mean?
verb
- To worship.
- To love with one's entire heart and soul; regard with deep respect and affection.
- To be very fond of.
More meanings (1)
verb
- (obsolete) To adorn.
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IPA pronunciation
/əˈdoɹ/
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Will was ready to adore her pity and loyalty, if she would associate himself with her in manifesting them.
“How strange it is, one grows attached. What money is that? Take back your hundred-sou piece. I adore the child.”
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“Because you would not believe it. I adore you, dear sister! I am delighted to be here, and I am charmed with the prospect.”
"I no longer love you," she writes, "but I still adore you. I do not want you any more, but I cannot do without you."
Now men in their aspect of equality and debate adore the idea of rules; they develop and complicate them greatly to excess.