The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word ADORATION
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More clues leading to the result ADORATION
- Trouble to dish out praise
- A speech about daughter's deep love
- A party helping to produce love
- Love is not a road I travelled
- Love helping after a party
- A woman absurdly into love
- Vacuous Alfred and Oscar share deep love
- A dean's original sermon maybe in worship
- A fellow embraces relation, showing love
- Love a portion sliced by cook
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The straight part
We know that "love" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case love = adoration.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does ADORATION mean?
ADORATION noun- An act of religious worship.
- Admiration or esteem.
- The act of adoring; loving devotion or fascination.
- The selection of a pope by acclamation and before any formal ballot (excluded as a voting method in 1621 by Pope Gregory XV).