Definition of Admiration

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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

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Benjamin Franklin

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

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

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

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.
John Adams

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
Katharine Hepburn

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.
Katharine Hepburn

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Jane Austen

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.
Jane Austen

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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