单词 | adored |
释义 | adoredadj. Worshipped, venerated; regarded with great respect or affection; beloved. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > reverence > quality of inspiring reverence > [adjective] > revered adored1489 reverenced1572 worshipped1577 idolized1646 revered1661 venerated1790 1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes i. i. sig. Ajv Adoured lady [Fr. dame] & hie goddesse be thou not displeased. 1584 W. Warner Pan his Syrinx sig. E The same Ladie, whom you behelde euen now in this place, was..the adored goddesse of mine amorous deuotions. 1648 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple (ed. 2) 55 At thy adored feet, thus, he layes downe His gorgeous Tire Of flame and fire. 1688 Bp. G. Burnet Three Lett. State of Italy 110 That adored picture of the Virgin, which, as the fond people there believe, was finished by an Angel. 1713 A. Pope Windsor-Forest 13 Old Warriors whose ador'd Remains In weeping Vaults her hallow'd Earth contains. 1762 D. Hume Hist. Eng. (new ed.) VI. 361 To seek a second time, thro' all the horrors of civil war, for his adored republic. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 163 The husband of her adored friend. 1890 W. S. Gilbert Foggerty's Fairy in Orig. Plays (1903) i. 25 This strange and irrational desire to spend a lifetime with the adored object. 1928 B. Marshall tr. K. Kobald Franz Schubert 276 In the streets of the city the faithful Schubertians followed their adored genius to the grave. 1952 O. A. Maslenikov Frenzied Poets iii. 39 His adored mother could not possibly be wrong. 1994 A. Ridler Coll. Poems 56 The adored lover in whom even self-love is forgotten. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1489 |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。