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 Note: Admire followed by the infinitive is obsolete or colloquial; as, I admire to see a man consistent in his conduct.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

... guess no girl in these parts could have been hired to wed with him, if he'd wanted. His mother died when he was born, so he'd had no softenin' influence. After news came of his death, the house was shut up 'till you bought it. My, how you've changed it, already! I'd admire to go ...

— The Thing from the Lake • Eleanor M. Ingram

... D'Avenant, Beeston's successor as manager at Drury Lane, and Thomas Shadwell, the fashionable writer of comedies, largely echoed their old mentor's words when, in conversation with Aubrey, they credited Shakespeare with "a most prodigious wit," and declared that they "did admire his natural parts beyond ...

— Shakespeare and the Modern Stage - with Other Essays • Sir Sidney Lee

... Catherine Martin, my cousin, the big pin-cushion in the said east chamber, which she used so much to praise and admire. ...

— The Sea Lions - The Lost Sealers • James Fenimore Cooper

... called in; Philippina was to admire the purchases. And she would say with apparent delight: "Now ain't that sweet!" Or, "Now that's fine; we needed a mouse-trap so bad! There was a mouse on the clothes rack just yesterday, ...

— The Goose Man • Jacob Wassermann

... Quod autem laudabile est, omne honestum est. Bonum igitur quod est, honestum est." Here the ambiguous word is laudabile, which in the minor premise means any thing which mankind are accustomed, on good grounds, to admire or value; as beauty, for instance, or good fortune: but in the major, it denotes exclusively moral qualities. In much the same manner the Stoics endeavored logically to justify as philosophical truths, their figurative and rhetorical expressions of ethical sentiment: ...

— A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive • John Stuart Mill

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