adoration vs esteem

adoration

noun
  • Admiration or esteem. 

  • The selection of a pope by acclamation and before any formal ballot (excluded as a voting method in 1621 by Pope Gregory XV). 

  • An act of religious worship. 

  • Worship of Christ in the Eucharistic host in the Catholic Church, often while exposed in a monstrance. 

  • The act of adoring; loving devotion or fascination. 

esteem

noun
  • Favourable regard. 

verb
  • To regard something as valuable; to prize. 

  • To look upon something in a particular way. 

  • To set a high value on; to regard with respect or reverence. 

How often have the words adoration and esteem occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )