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Admiration

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A positive emotion including wonder and approbation; the regarding of another as being wonderful countable, uncountable

    "admiration of a war hero"

  2. 2
    a favorable judgment wordnet
  3. 3
    Wondering or questioning (without any particular positive or negative attitude to the subject). countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "Lear. Your name, fair gentlewoman? Goneril. This admiration, sir, is much o’ th’ savour Of other your new pranks."

  4. 4
    a feeling of delighted approval and liking wordnet
  5. 5
    Cause of admiration; something to excite wonder, or pleased surprise. countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "Now, good Lafeu, Bring in the admiration; that we with thee May spend our wonder too, or take off thine By wondering how thou took’st it."

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  1. 6
    the feeling aroused by something strange and surprising wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English admiracion, borrowed from Middle French admiration, or directly from Latin admīrātiō, from prefix ad- (“to, towards”) + mīrō (“I look at”) + -ātiō. Compare the verb admire, and US dialectal terms miration and mirate.

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