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Chris -- 2018-04-11
“adoring quality” gets about 2,500 hits on google, though some of them are legitimate. “adoring trait” gets only 5 hits, “adoring characteristic” gets 1. Hard to say how much of this is a misuse of ‘adorable’ and how much is an eggcorn for “endearing”.
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