adoration

noun5

1. •
   Admiration or esteem.

   • […] 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. — 1891
2. •
   very deep love and admiration for someone or something, sometimes so strong that it is close to worship

   • Because of Gerald's adoration for Katie, he was blind to her flaws.
3. •
   an act of worship that expresses deep love and praise for God or a god

   • 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. — 1779
4. •
   Worship of Christ in the Eucharistic host in the Catholic Church, often while exposed in a monstrance.
5. •
   (historical) The selection of a pope by acclamation and before any formal ballot (excluded as a voting method in 1621 by Pope Gregory XV).