adoration vs reverence

adoration

noun
  • An act of religious worship. 

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

  • 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. 

  • Admiration or esteem. 

reverence

noun
  • The state of being revered. 

  • An act of showing respect, such as a bow. 

  • Veneration; profound awe and respect, normally in a sacred context. 

  • That which deserves or exacts manifestations of reverence; reverend character; dignity; state. 

  • A form of address for some members of the clergy. 

verb
  • To show or feel reverence to. 

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