Admiration
[ædmə'reɪʃ(ə)n] or [,ædmə'reʃən]
Definition
(noun.) a favorable judgment; 'a small token in admiration of your works'.
(noun.) a feeling of delighted approval and liking.
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Definition
(n.) Wonder; astonishment.
(n.) Wonder mingled with approbation or delight; an emotion excited by a person or thing possessed of wonderful or high excellence; as, admiration of a beautiful woman, of a landscape, of virtue.
(n.) Cause of admiration; something to excite wonder, or pleased surprise; a prodigy.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. [Rare.] Wonder, surprise, astonishment, amazement.[2]. Liking, love, high regard, high opinion.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
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Examples
- Having first seen him perfectly swallowed up in admiration of Mrs. Jellyby, I had supposed her to be the absorbing object of his devotion. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Nothing but the homage of my admiration is my own. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The trees of the forest attracted my deep admiration as I proceeded toward the sea. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Edison has always had an amused admiration for Bergmann, and his social side is often made evident by his love of telling stories about those days of struggle. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- She performed her promise of being discreet, to admiration. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- They lighted up Rebecca's figure to admiration, as she sat on a sofa covered with a pattern of gaudy flowers. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- These things, and others of a like nature, excited admiration in all that saw him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The bosom moving in Society with the jewels displayed upon it, attracted general admiration. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- My mind filled with admiration for this extraordinary man. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He sat looking at her, and did not rise to pay her any compliments, leaving that to others, now that his admiration was deepened. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It is a tone of fervent admiration, true homage, and deep love, Doctor Manette! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- He is a capital man of business,' said Wicks, in a tone of the deepest admiration, 'capital, isn't he? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Admiration will go out to the men who did not submit, who bent things to human use. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Mrs. Bry's admiration was a mirror in which Lily's self-complacency recovered its lost outline. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Harriet was not insensible of manner; she had voluntarily noticed her father's gentleness with admiration as well as wonder. Jane Austen. Emma.
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