Adoration
Adoration ({not transcribed}) , noun
[Latin adoratio, from adorare: compare French adoration.]
1.
The act of playing honor to a divine being; the worship paid to God; the act of addressing as a god.
The more immediate objects of popular adoration amongst the heathens were deified human beings.
2.
Homage paid to one in high esteem; profound veneration; intense regard and love; fervent devotion.
3.
A method of electing a pope by the expression of homage from two thirds of the conclave.
[Pole] might have been chosen on the spot by adoration.