adorer

From adore +‎ -er.

adorer (plural adorers)

1. Someone who adores.
   1. Someone who worships.
      • 1582, Gregory Martin (translator), The New Testament of Jesus Christ, Translated Faithfully into English, Reims: John Fogny, John 4.23, p. 226,

        But the houre commeth, and now it is, when the true adorers shal adore the Father in spirit and veritie.

      • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, London, Book 8, lines 140-143,

        […] I in one Night freed

        From servitude inglorious welnigh half

        Th’ Angelic Name, and thinner left the throng

        Of his adorers […]

      • 1798, Thomas Paine, Atheism Refuted, London: J. Johnson, p. 17,

        All men in the outset of the religion they profess are adorers of a God, and friends of man.

   2. Someone who has a deep admiration, fondness or love (of someone or something).
      • c. 1609,, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act I, Scene 4,

        […] I profess myself her adorer, not her friend.

      • 1732, George Berkeley, Alciphron, Dublin: G. Risk et al., Volume 2, Dialogue 6, Chapter 32, p. 83,

        I who profess my self an Admirer, an Adorer of Reason, am obliged to own, that in some Cases the Sharpness of Ridicule can do more than the Strength of Argument.

      • 1871, W. S. Gilbert, “Old Paul and Old Tim” in More “Bab” Ballads, London: Routledge, 1892, p. 164,

        When rival adorers come courting a maid,

        There’s something or other may often be said,

        Why he should be pitched upon rather than him.

        This wasn’t the case with Old PAUL and Old TIM.

      • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, London: Picador, Chapter 13, p. 403,

        The funny thing was that all the envelopes were addressed in the same hand, in green or sometimes purple capitals. It was like one crazed adorer laying siege to Leo.

• (someone who worships): devotee, worshipper
• (someone with a deep admiration): admirer

• roader, roared

adorer (feminine adorera, masculine plural adorers, feminine plural adoreres)

1. Ador (Valencia, Spain) (attributive), of Ador, from Ador

adorer m (plural adorers, feminine adorera)

1. A person from, or an inhabitant of Ador, Valencia, Spain.

From Old French adorer, borrowed from Latin adōrō, adōrāre.

• IPA^(key): /a.dɔ.ʁe/

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adorer

1. to love, to adore
2. (religion) to worship

• adorable
• adorateur
• adoration

• Haitian Creole: adore

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

• dorera, rodera, rôdera

adōrer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of adōrō

• adurer

Borrowed from Latin adōrō, adōrāre. Doublet with aorer. The -d- was re-introduced from influence from Ecclesiastical Latin.

adorer

1. (chiefly Christianity) to praise (usually God)

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• Middle French: adorer
  • French: adorer
    • Haitian Creole: adore
  • → Dutch: adoreren
• → Middle English: adoren
  • English: adore