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adorer

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a·dore  (-dôr, -dr)
v. a·dored, a·dor·ing, a·dores
v.tr.
1. To worship as God or a god.
2. To regard with deep, often rapturous love. See Synonyms at revere1.
3. To like very much: adores mink coats.
v.intr.
To worship.

[Middle English adouren, from Old French adourer, from Latin adrre, to pray to : ad-, ad- + rre, to pray.]

a·dorer n.
a·doring·ly adv.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.adoreradorer - someone who admires a young woman; "she had many admirers"
lover - a person who loves someone or is loved by someone
fancier, enthusiast - a person having a strong liking for something
suer, suitor, wooer - a man who courts a woman; "a suer for the hand of the princess"
worshiper, worshipper - someone who admires too much to recognize faults
Translations
adorer
n
(= worshipper)Anbeter(in) m(f)
(= admirer)Verehrer(in) m(f), → Bewunderer m, → Bewunderin f


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Julie had long been expecting a proposal from her melancholy adorer and was ready to accept it; but some secret feeling of repulsion for her, for her passionate desire to get married, for her artificiality, and a feeling of horror at renouncing the possibility of real love still restrained Boris.
Remained Balatta, who, from the time she found him and poked his blue eyes open to recrudescence of her grotesque female hideousness, had continued his adorer.
Was this my indulgent father, my playmate, adorer, and friend?
 
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