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to regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor.
to pay divine honor to; worship:
to adore God.
to like or admire very much:
I simply adore the way your hair is done!
to worship.
Historical Examples

But Hamilton believed in monopolies no more than did Betty, and he became her adorer.
Superwomen Albert Payson Terhune

She had found an adorer, and had apparently succumbed to his importunities.
“Seth” Frances Hodgson Burnett

She knows she can summon an adorer by one beckon of her fan, and dismiss him by another.
Modern Women and What is Said of Them Anonymous

If Glaucus could not be her slave, neither could he be the adorer of her rival.
The Last Days of Pompeii Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

She did not see her adorer until after the service, when they met face to face.
Samuel the Seeker Upton Sinclair

Fiesco is an adorer of the arts, and soon warmed by ennobling scenes.
Fiesco or, The Genoese Conspiracy Friedrich Schiller

She felt intuitively that the wild, intense passion of her Italian adorer must be kept within discreet limits.
Monte-Cristo’s Daughter Edmund Flagg

The third vase was that of the genius Trautmutf, “the adorer of his mother.”
Ten Thousand Wonderful Things Edmund Fillingham King

A doctor named Brown had been the adorer for many years of a Miss White.
Among the Humorists and After Dinner Speakers, Vol. I Various

Veltro fits the indispensable turnkey, and for title—The adorer.
Very Woman Remy de Gourmont

verb
(transitive) to love intensely or deeply
to worship (a god) with religious rites
(transitive) (informal) to like very much: I adore chocolate
v.

late 14c., aouren, “to worship, pay divine honors to, bow down before,” from Old French aorer “to adore, worship, praise” (10c.), from Latin adorare “speak to formally, beseech, ask in prayer,” in Late Latin “to worship,” from ad- “to” (see ad-) + orare “speak formally, pray” (see orator). Meaning “to honor very highly” is attested from 1590s; weakened sense of “to be very fond of” emerged by 1880s. Related: Adored; adoring.

to worship; to express reverence and homage. The forms of adoration among the Jews were putting off the shoes (Ex. 3:5; Josh. 5:15), and prostration (Gen. 17:3; Ps. 95:6; Isa. 44:15, 17, 19; 46:6). To “kiss the Son” in Ps. 2:12 is to adore and worship him. (See Dan. 3:5, 6.) The word itself does not occur in Scripture.