perpetual adoration
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The statue would have been placed in a temple, so the gods would think Ur-Ningirsu was standing there in perpetual adoration.
From Slate • Apr. 11, 2022
Blick said the priest who founded the church building in 1964 once returned for a visit and said he noticed a different atmosphere, something attributed to perpetual adoration.
From Washington Times • Apr. 21, 2017
“I don’t want him to someday say, ‘Where were you when I needed you?’” said Pat Dwyer, one of the original volunteers who organized perpetual adoration at the church.
From Washington Times • Apr. 21, 2017
Our Lady of Guadalupe in Hutchinson has had perpetual adoration since 1995.
From Washington Times • Apr. 21, 2017
The four years of her reign—two spent in the splendor of perpetual adoration, two in the gloom of disasters culminating in final ruin—were like a distant dream, half a golden vision, half a hideous nightmare.
From The Happy Days of the Empress Marie Louise by Imbert de Saint-Amand, Arthur Léon, baron
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