Jack: As for your conduct towards Miss Cardew, I must say that your taking in a sweet, simple, innocent girl like that is quite inexcusable. To say nothing of the fact that she is my ward.
Algernon: I can see no possible defense at all for your deceiving a brilliant, clever, thoroughly experienced young lady like Miss Fairfax. To say nothing of the fact that she is my cousin.
Jack: I wanted to be engaged to Gwendolen, that is all. I lover her.
Algernon: Well, simply wanted to be engaged to Cecily. I ADORE her.
~Oscar Wilde, The Importance of being Earnest, 1899

Middle English adouren, from Anglo-French aurer, adourer

from Latin adorare, from ad- + orare to speak, pray