Adoration

1. n. A method of electing a pope by the expression of homage from two thirds of the conclave.
2. n. The act of playing honor to a divine being; the worship paid to God; the act of addressing as a god.
3. n. Homage paid to one in high esteem; profound veneration; intense regard and love; fervent devotion.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.