When we really like something, we’ll talk about how we love it. But if you delve into the history of the word, then perhaps many will abandon it. How our research will affect readers, we cannot predict. We can only reveal the meaning of the word “adore”, its origin and make sentences.
Origin
Even those who have never been carried away by the history of the language will guess from the sound that a word from the noun “god” is formed. But since we are talking about the affairs of bygone days, we are talking about pagan gods, and not a single one. The one who, by the way, warned that people should not create idols for themselves, but worship and worship only him alone. A little earlier, the meaning was “to love like a god,” and then just “passionately love.”
Only the last meaning of the word “adore” has survived, so people don’t think much when they say that they “adore ice cream”. Of course, they passionately love him. But if you know the first, initial meaning, then immediately draws to imagine the god of ice cream. He probably could have looked like a marshmallow man in the movie Ghostbusters (1984), only the ice cream god would have been from ice cream. But as soon as we fully understand the meaning of the word “I love,” the interpretation will enter a decisive phase at the same moment.
Value
Yes, sweets are a great topic, but we still need to discuss whether it is possible to “adore ice cream” as far as it is legitimate from the point of view of language. Let's open the explanatory dictionary:
- To have a feeling of strong love for someone (or something), to worship someone (or something).
- To love very much, to have an addiction to something (vernacular).
Honestly, you can’t figure it out right away, what is the difference between the first and the second value. Maybe everything rests against the object of worship. For example, you can adore mom or Hesse. Here the meaning does not go beyond the circle of the literary language, but if a person begins to adore fishing, berries, ice cream, then he falls into heresy, that is, into vernacular. Or maybe everything is simpler: if a person loves, then you can say that, but if you just have a passion, then you can’t say that? Let the reader think about the problem at their leisure, and we move on.
suggestions
We hope that at least such clarity has come about the meaning of the word “I adore”, this is our main goal. And we will fix it in our proposals:
- Oh, I love this color, it suits me that way.
- I adore her, she is so beautiful, especially when she wears a red dress.
- Women love compliments.
- She adored her husband and sacrificed her desires and interests for him, and it came to her sideways.
The reader is left to understand in which cases the use of the meaning of the word “adore” falls out of the literary language, and in which it remains in its space.