perpetual adoration
Americannoun
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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
Our Lady of Guadalupe in Hutchinson has had perpetual adoration since 1995.
From Washington Times • Apr. 21, 2017
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
The “anciennes cohues de France,” gay, familiar and military, gave place to a stilted court life, a perpetual adoration, a very ceremonious and very complicated ritual, in which the demigod “pontificated” even “in his dressing-gown.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" by Various
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