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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 Note: Admire followed by the infinitive is obsolete or colloquial; as, I admire to see a man consistent in his conduct.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

... story, clean, exciting, exemplifying nobility and courage of character, and bravery, and heroism in the sort of men and women we all admire and ...

— The Gold Trail • Harold Bindloss

... shaping ideals of what character should be, often held unconsciously, come from the books they are given by the persons whom they most admire before they are twenty years old. The greatest thing any friend or teacher, either in school or college, can do for a student is to furnish him with a personal ideal. The college professors who transformed me through my acquaintance ...

— Why go to College? an Address • Alice Freeman Palmer

... finally led him to believe that she was again deeply mortified by her lover's lack of manhood, and that she was depressed because of her relation to one who had failed so signally, the evening before, in those qualities that women most admire. ...

— From Jest to Earnest • E. P. Roe

... sparing inventions, which are the ornament of all the Poeticall workes of succeeding ages. Yet is there no competent Judge that findeth them wanting in those Ancient ones, and that doth not much more admire that smoothly equall neatnesse, continued sweetnesse, and flourishing comelinesse of Catullus his Epigrams, than all the sharpe quips and witty girds wherewith Martiall doth whet and embellish the conclusions of his. It ...

— Literary and Philosophical Essays • Various

... was in a place where no one cared for her clothes nor for the little airs she liked to put on, whenever she found any one to admire her, but where she would be valued just for herself, and for her behavior. In that one morning she had noticed how little girls who had not thought of themselves, but only of pleasing others, had found friends at once, while no one had seemed to care for her society; and she realized that if ...

— Ruby at School • Minnie E. Paull

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