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worship dressed in its Sunday best, where love stops being polite and starts kneeling
means Deep, reverent love or worship — the kind of devotion that borders on the holy.
from From Latin adorare, "to pray to, worship," built from ad- ("toward") plus orare ("to speak, pray") — the same orare that gives us oratory and orator. So at its root, adoration is speech aimed at something greater than yourself, mouth turned upward. It reached English through French in the late Middle Ages, carrying its churchly weight intact.
- latin root
- adorare means to pray toward, mouth to hand
- the gesture
- ancient worshippers kissed their own hands at gods
- clinical edge
- obsessive adoration is studied as limerence
- raphael painting
- his Sistine cherubs lean on a fence, bored
beatlemania — fan frenzy for the beatles, screaming crowds at concerts 1963-1966
cult of personality stalin — soviet citizens' enforced veneration with portraits, statues, and propaganda 1922-1953
elvis presley worship — fans treating him as sacred figure, graceland pilgrimages ongoing since 1977