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adorable, a.|əˈdɔərəb(ə)l|
[a. Fr. adorable, ad. L. adōrābil-em worthy of worship; f. adōrā-re; see adore + -able.]
1. Worthy of worship or divine honour.
1611Cotgr., Adorable, adorable, worthy, or fit to be adored. 1654Baker Lett. Balzac III. 105 And make me a thing adoreable and divine. 1756Burke Subl. & B. Wks. I. 228 We discover the adorable wisdom of God in his works. 1794Sullivan View of Nat. III. 399 That adorable Being who governs all.
2. By exaggeration, said of anything to which one is passionately attached. Now also in increasingly trivial use, charming, delightful.
1710Shaftesbury Charact. iii. i. (1737) II. 349 A way to make very adorable Places of these Silvan Habitations. 1766Anstey Bath Guide (1779) 139 I'm griev'd to the heart Without cash to depart, And quit this adorable scene. 1847Disraeli Tancred vi. ix. (1871) 469 The ever adorable had truly quitted the mountains. 1900‘Flynt’ & ‘Walton’ Powers that Prey ii. 37 It may be doubted whether Richard ‘looked’ adorable; for the most part he looked uncommonly sharp and hard. 1908E. M. Forster Room with View ii. 25 Look at that adorable wine-cart! How the driver stares at us, dear, simple soul! 1960C. Day Lewis Buried Day ii. 39 John McCormack, an adorable man, handsome as the top of the morning, racy and bawdy of tongue, a heroic figure with the simplicity of the heroic and a heart of gold. |