ppl. a. [f. ADORE v. + -ED.] Worshipped, revered, highly reverenced, regarded with profound affection.

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c. 1325.  E. E. Allit. P., A 368. I forloyne my dere endorde.

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1653.  Crashaw, Sacr. Poems, 164. At Thy adored feet, thus, he lays down His gorgeous tire Of flame and fire.

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1713.  Pope, Winds. For., 301. Old warriors whose ador’d remains In weeping vaults her hallow’d earth contains.

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1762.  Hume, Hist. Eng., lxix. (1806), V. 198. To seek a second time, through all the horrors of civil war, for his adored republic.

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1855.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., IV. 163. The husband of her adored friend.

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