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Definition of Admiration
Admiration

Wonder; astonishment.

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.

Cause of admiration; something to excite wonder, or pleased surprise; a prodigy.

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Admiration Quotations

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Albert Einstein

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Admiration Translations

admiration in French is admiration
admiration in German is Bewunderung
admiration in Latin is admiratio
admiration in Swedish is beundran, beundran


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