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Definition of Admire
Admire

To regard with wonder or astonishment; to view with surprise; to marvel at.

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.

To wonder; to marvel; to be affected with surprise; -- sometimes with at.

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Admire Quotations

I can't do pieces I only admire technically. I have to feel some direct contact with them.
Michael T. Thomas

Many admire, few know.
Hippocrates

We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
Samuel Butler

Admire Translations

admire in Afrikaans is bewonder
admire in Danish is beundre
admire in Dutch is bewonderen
admire in German is bewundere, bewundern, bewundern
admire in Italian is ammirare
admire in Latin is admiror, miror
admire in Norwegian is beundre
admire in Portuguese is admirar
admire in Spanish is admirar, venerar
admire in Swedish is beundra


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