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admiration|ˌædmɪˈreɪʃən|
Also 5–6 -cyon, -cion, -tyon.
[a. Fr. admiration (14th c. in Littré), ad. L. admīrātiōn-em, n. of action f. admīrā-ri: see admire.]
1. The action of wondering or marvelling; wonder, astonishment, surprise. arch.
1506Ordin. Crysten Men (W. de Worde) i. vii. 73 Yf he haue admyracyon that one essence of deite be in thre persones. 1611Bible Rev. xvii. 6 When I saw her, I wondred with great admiration. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. iv. xvi. 323 Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. 1662Evelyn Sylva (1679) 9 In admiration at the universal negligence. 1719De Foe Crusoe 331 But now the Admiration was turned upon another Question, (viz.) what could be the Matter. 1826Scott Woodst. xxv. Wks. 1830 II. 143 Phœbe stood gaping in admiration at the sudden quarrel. 1852Sir W. Hamilton Discuss. 14 How it could ever be doubted..may well be deemed a matter of the profoundest admiration.
2. a. Agreeable surprise; wonder mingled with reverence, esteem, approbation; hence, in late usage, pleased or gratified contemplation.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie ii. xii. (1811) 91 To bring the world into admiration of their lawes and Religion. 1617Wither Fidelia in Juvenil. 1633, 480 That love which Admiration first begot, Pitty would strengthen. c1680Beveridge Serm. (1729) I. 10 Take heed that you have not men's persons in admiration. 1860Tyndall Glaciers i. §11, 72 One large star in particular excited our admiration. 1871Ruskin Fors Clav. v. 17 Admiration—the power of discerning and taking delight in what is beautiful in visible Form, and lovely in human Character. 1876Mozley Univ. Serm. vii. 146 The test of true admiration is pleasure.
b. Phr. to admiration [cf. F. à merveille], so as to elicit admiration; in an admirable or excellent manner. Slightly arch.
1633W. Ames Fresh Suit Pref., This book..hath made all things evident to them, even to admiration. a1680Evelyn Diary May an. 1646 (1955) II. 501 They are curious in Straw-worke among the Nunns, even to admiration. 1681H. More Expos. Proph. Dan. App. I. 259 You shall find this part of the Prophecy fulfilled to admiration. 1793Smeaton Edystone Lightho. §152 The Buss in all the past bad weather had indeed rode it out to admiration. 1821C. Lamb Old Benchers in Lond. Mag. Sept. 282/2 [He] moulded heads in clay or plaister of Paris to admiration, by the dint of natural genius merely. 1930V. Woolf Beau Brummell 5 He..tied his cravat to admiration.
†3. The faculty of exciting either wonder or agreeable surprise and approbation; admirableness. Obs.
1534Ld. Berners Golden Bk. of M. Aurel. (1546) E b, Theyr fewe woordes and good workes haue lefte vs exaumple of great admiracion. 1610Shakes. Temp. iii. i. 38 Admir'd Miranda! Indeede the top of admiration. 1642Jer. Taylor God's Judgem. i. i. xxix. 133 [They] found him to be starke dead, not without markes upon him of wonderfull admiration.
4. An object of admiration or wonder; a marvel. In mod. usage only in the phrase the admiration of, with a distinctly verbal reference.
1490Caxton Eneydos xxvii. 97 The harde and sorowfull admyracions that thenne made palmyreus that was maistre of eneas shippe ben declared. 1548Compl. Scotl. (1801) 86 Ther is ane vthir admiration of the variant course of the moone. 1601Shakes. All's Well ii. i. 91 Now, good Lafew, Bring in the admiration, that we with thee May spend our wonder too. 1716–8Lady M. W. Montague Lett. I. xxii. 69 The young prince..is the admiration of the whole court. 1833H. Martineau Brooke Farm xii. 133 Joe's house is the admiration of all who know what comfort is.
5. note of admiration: the mark (!) affixed to words, phrases, or sentences, intended to be uttered with an intonation of exclamation or surprise.
1611Shakes. Wint. T. v. ii. 12 The changes I perceiued in the King and Camillo, were very Notes of admiration. 1611Cotgr., Admiratif, Th' admirative point, or point of admiration (and of detestation) marked, or made thus ! 1719Swift To Yng. Clerg. Wks. 1755 II. ii. 8 To skip over all sentences where he spied a note of admiration at the end. 1859J. Lang Wand. India 387 You will have the Commander-in-Chief down upon you with five-and-twenty notes of admiration at the end of every sentence. |