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1. To regard with wonder or astonishment; to view with surprise; to marvel at. Examples rather to be admired than imitated. Fuller. 2. To regard with wonder and delight; to look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls

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1. To regard with wonder or astonishment; to view with surprise; to marvel at. Examples rather to be admired than imitated. Fuller. 2. 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. Admired as heroes and as gods obeyed. Pope. Note: Admire followed by the infinitive is obsolete or colloquial; as, I admire to see a man consistent in his conduct. Syn. -- To esteem; approve; delight in.

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  • WORSHIPFUL
    Entitled to worship, reverence, or high respect; claiming respect; worthy of honor; -- often used as a term of respect, sometimes ironically. "This is worshipful society." Shak. so dear and worshipful. Chaucer. -- Wor"ship*ful*ly, adv.
  • THINKING
    Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being. -- Think"ing*ly, adv.
  • DISREGARDFULLY
    Negligently; heedlessly.
  • HALLOW
    To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
  • MISJUDGE
    To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
  • ADMIRED
    1. Regarded with wonder and delight; highly prized; as, an admired poem. 2. Wonderful; also, admirable. "Admired disorder." " Admired Miranda." Shak.
  • HONORABLE
    1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
  • PRAISEWORTHINESS
    The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
  • AFFECTATIONIST
    One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
  • ADORE
    adorare; ad + orare to speak, pray, os, oris, mouth. In OE. confused with honor, the French prefix a- being confused with OE. a, an, on. 1. To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors to; to honor as deity or as divine. Smollett. 2.
  • CONSIDERINGLY
    With consideration or deliberation.
  • MISCOMPUTE
    To compute erroneously. Sir T. Browne.
  • APPRECIATE
    a price, appraise; ad + pretiare to prize, pretium price. Cf. 1. To set a price or value on; to estimate justly; to value. To appreciate the motives of their enemies. Gibbon. 3. To raise the value of; to increase the market price of; -- opposed
  • IDOLIZE
    1. To make an idol of; to pay idolatrous worship to; as, to idolize the sacred bull in Egypt. 2. To love to excess; to love or reverence to adoration; as, to idolize gold, children, a hero.
  • PRICE
    to buy, OI. renim I sell. Cf. Appreciate, Depreciate, Interpret, 1. The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which something is bought or sold, or offered for sale;
  • REVERENTIALLY
    In a reverential manner.
  • ESTEEM
    1. To set a value on; to appreciate the worth of; to estimate; to value; to reckon. Then he forsook God, which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. Deut. xxxii. 15. Thou shouldst esteem his censure and authority to be of
  • CENSURER
    One who censures. Sha.
  • WORSHIPABLE
    Capable of being worshiped; worthy of worship. Carlyle.
  • AFFECTION
    Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
  • APPRAISER
    One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
  • DISRESPECTABILITY
    Want of respectability. Thackeray.
  • OVERAFFECT
    To affect or care for unduly. Milton.
  • MISAFFECT
    To dislike.
  • UNCONSIDERED
    Not considered or attended to; not regarded; inconsiderable; trifling. A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. Shak.
  • PREJUDGE
    To judge before hearing, or before full and sufficient examination; to decide or sentence by anticipation; to condemn beforehand. The committee of council hath prejudged the whole case, by calling the united sense of both houses of Parliament" a
  • MISTHINK
    To think wrongly. "Adam misthought of her." Milton.
  • FOREJUDGER
    A judgment by which one is deprived or put of a right or thing in question.

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