0 very great admiration or praise for someone, especially when it is more than is deserved: --
As a born performer, she loves the excitement and she loves the adulation.
1 too much admiration or praise for someone: --
After all, we well know the adulation in which he holds the idea of government by an aristocratic oligarchy.
But that does not mean in any way that we should treat them with adulation or endeavour to mimic them.
It is not my intention to dwell too long on the adulation.
By humble adulations and continued persuasions they make the purchasers of the foreign cloth to change their mind.
I noted that his adulation of the hereditary peerage savoured of the defence of illegitimate legitimacy.
History will record that the near adulation of science has given place to feelings of doubt and even fear.
That is why we are tolerant when, among other things, it deflates millionaires, "debags" politicians and even skims the fat off excessive adulation.
I give it in adulation not in condemnation of these schools.