Dictionary Entry

adored

Part of SpeechverbPronunciation/əˈdɔːd/Used In Literature ↓

To worship.

Origin

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Common Phrases

. adored

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Poetry examples for “adored”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Or bound in formal, or in real chains:
Whole years neglected, for some months adored,
The fawning servant turns a haughty lord.

And first the pardon of the nymphs implored,
And those offended sylvan powers adored:
But when she backward would have fled, she found

The world's great victor pass'd unheeded by;
Her last good man dejected Rome adored,
And honour'd Caesar's less than Cato's sword.

The world's great victor pass'd unheeded by;
Her last good man dejected Rome adored,
And honour'd Caesar's less than Cato's sword.

For this, ere Phoebus rose, he had implored
Propitious Heaven, and every power adored,
But chiefly Love--to Love an altar built,

Father of all! in every age,
In every clime adored,
By saint, by savage, and by sage,

Who played long since for so large a prize,
The fruitful immortal anointed adored
Dear city of men without master or lord,

Still warned, surrender to;
Adored with you to-day,
Then cast with you away,

Of course you'd let him fancy he
Adored you for your piety.

That is the new Temple of the Sun, who is adored in Syria under
the title of Elah Gabalah. Hereafter a very notorious Roman