different between adoration vs blessing

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French adoration, from Latin ad?r?ti?, ad?r?ti?nem (“worship, adoration”), from ad?r? (“beseech; adore, worship”), from ad (“to, towards”) + ?r? (“beg”).adore +? -ation

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ.d???e?.??n/
• Rhymes: -e???n
• Hyphenation: ad?o?ra?tion

Noun

adoration (countable and uncountable, plural adorations)

1. (countable) An act of religious worship.
   • a. 1779, David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

     We incessantly look forward, and endeavour, by prayers, adoration, and sacrifice, to appease those unknown powers, whom we find, by experience, so able to afflict and oppress us.

2. (uncountable) Admiration or esteem.
   • 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

     […] if she can create the sense of beauty in people whose lives have been sordid and ugly...she is worthy of all your adoration, worthy of the adoration of the world.

3. (uncountable) The act of adoring; loving devotion or fascination.
   • 1887, H. Rider Haggard, Allan Quatermain

     He adored Sorais quite as earnestly as Sir Henry adored Nyleptha, and his adoration had not altogether prospered.

4. (historical) The selection of a pope by acclamation and before any formal ballot (excluded as a voting method in 1621 by Pope Gregory XV).

Antonyms

• disdain

Related terms

• adorational

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ad?r?ti?, ad?r?ti?nem (“worship, adoration”), from ad?r? (“beseech; adore, worship”), from ad (“to, towards”) + ?r? (“beg”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.d?.?a.sj??/
• Homophone: adorations
• Hyphenation: a?do?ra?tion

Noun

adoration f (plural adorations)

1. adoration
2. (religion) adoration

Related terms

• adorer

Further reading

• “adoration” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Middle English blessinge, blessynge, from Old English bl?tsung, bl?dsung (“a blessing”), equivalent to bless +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bl?s.??/
• Rhymes: -?s??

Noun

blessing (plural blessings)

1. Some kind of divine or supernatural aid, or reward.
2. A pronouncement invoking divine aid.
3. Good fortune.
4. (paganism) A modern pagan ceremony.
5. The act of declaring or bestowing favor; approval.
6. Something someone is glad of.

7. A prayer before a meal; grace.
8. A group of unicorns.
   • 2008, Betsy Schiffman, "Time To Trash the Intellectual Property System, Says Report", Wired, 11 September 2008:

     And since we’re laying out our wishes, we’d also like a blessing of unicorns and one million dollars.

   • 2009, Andrew Orlowski, "Facebook music dashboard: Revenue at last?", The Register, 13 September 2011:

     Then a blessing of unicorns charged into the studio, and I was carried away to be re-educated.

   • 2011, Suzette Mayr, Monoceros, Coach House Books (2011), ?ISBN, page 94:

     She just wants to talk to her friends on www.unicornwillsaveus.com or write in her journal or flump on her bedroom floor with her blessing of unicorns: her posters, figurines, stickers, temporary tattoos of anatomically correct unicorns.

Antonyms

• curse

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

blessing

1. present participle of bless

Anagrams

• glibness