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verb

Admire v. t. (past & past part. admired; pres. part. admiring)

To regard with wonder or astonishment; to view with surprise; to marvel at. (Archaic) "Examples rather to be admired than imitated."

To regard with wonder and delight; to look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love, or reverence; to estimate or prize highly; as, to admire a person of high moral worth, to admire a landscape. "Admired as heroes and as gods obeyed." Note: Admire followed by the infinitive is obsolete or colloquial; as, I admire to see a man consistent in his conduct.

Synonyms: To esteem; approve; delight in.

Admire v. i. To wonder; to marvel; to be affected with surprise; sometimes with at. "To wonder at Pharaoh, and even admire at myself."

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Etymology of 'Admire'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Admire" Quotes from Famous Books

... Eastern cousins could have made them artificially, magnificent black hair, that could hardly be contained in the close white cap, and a lithe beautiful figure on which the plainest dress sat with an Eastern grace. Perronel's neighbours did not admire her. They were not sure whether she were most Saracen, gipsy, or Jew. In fact, she was as like Rachel at the well as her father had been to a patriarch, and her descent was of the purest Saracen lineage, ...

— The Armourer's Prentices • Charlotte M. Yonge

... seen the desert or felt the sun heavily on his shoulders would hardly admire the fertility of the riparian scrub. Unnourishing reeds and grasses grow rank and coarse from the water's edge. The dark, rotten soil between the tussocks is cracked and granulated by the drying up of the ...

— The River War • Winston S. Churchill

... only a quotation, and I thought you would admire anything Mr. Leavenworth said, Aunt Pen," ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 12, August, 1863, No. 70 - A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics • Various

... none the less, there lurked a feeling which sometimes made as if to raise its head: a feeling that she did not really like M. P., or admire her, or respect her; one which, had it come quite to life, would have kicked against Mary's authority, been contemptuous of her unimaginative way of seeing and saying things, on the alert to remind its owner that HER way, too, had a right to existence. But is was not strong enough ...

— The Getting of Wisdom • Henry Handel Richardson

... underneath Varahran's horse, which is clearing the obstacle in his bound. The spirit of the entire composition is admirable; and though the stone is in a state of advanced decay, travellers never fail to admire the vigor of the design and the life and movement which ...

— The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 7. (of 7): The Sassanian or New Persian Empire • George Rawlinson

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