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ADORED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Regarded with deep or rapturous love (especially as if for a god)
Example:
an idolized wife
Synonyms:
adored; idolised; idolized; worshipped
Classified under:
Similar:
loved (held dear)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb adore
Context examples:
Louisa said he was "a love of a creature," and she "adored him;" and Mary instanced his "pretty little mouth, and nice nose," as her ideal of the charming.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
If he had the least idea how I adored his mistress, well he might!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
This benefit was fully repaid; Justine was the most grateful little creature in the world: I do not mean that she made any professions I never heard one pass her lips, but you could see by her eyes that she almost adored her protectress.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Being a domestic man, John decidedly missed the wifely attentions he had been accustomed to receive, but as he adored his babies, he cheerfully relinquished his comfort for a time, supposing with masculine ignorance that peace would soon be restored.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
They consulted their village priest, and the result was that Elizabeth Lavenza became the inmate of my parents’ house—my more than sister—the beautiful and adored companion of all my occupations and my pleasures.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Of course, Demi tyrannized over Daisy, and gallantly defended her from every other aggressor, while Daisy made a galley slave of herself, and adored her brother as the one perfect being in the world.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
