1. Worthy of worship or divine honor.
1611. Cotgr., Adorable, adorable, worthy, or fit to be adored.
1654. Baker, Lett. Balzac, III. 105. And make me a thing adoreable and divine.
1756. Burke, Subl. & B., Wks. I. 228. We discover the adorable wisdom of God in his works.
1794. Sullivan, View of Nat., III. 399. That adorable Being who governs all.
2. By exaggeration, said of anything to which one is passionately attached.
1710. Shaftesbury, Charact., III. i. (1737), II. 349. A way to make very adorable Places of these Silvan Habitations.
1766. Anstey, Bath Guide (1779), 139. I’m griev’d to the heart Without cash to depart, And quit this adorable scene.
1847. Disraeli, Tancred, VI. ix. (1871), 469. The ever adorable had truly quitted the mountains.
