# admiration
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English admiracion, borrowed from Middle French admiration, or directly from Latin admīrātiō, from prefix ad- (“to, towards”) + mīrō (“I look at”) + -ātiō. Compare the verb admire, and US dialectal terms miration and mirate.

### Pronunciation

* (UK, US) IPA: /ˌæd.məˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪʃən

### Noun

admiration (countable and uncountable, plural admirations)
* A positive emotion including wonder and approbation; the regarding of another as being wonderful
    admiration of a war hero
    They looked at the landscape in admiration.
** 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter 1, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book 7, pages 4-5:For in this Instance, Life most exactly resembles the Stage, since it is often the same Person who represents the Villain and the Heroe; and he who engages your Admiration To-day, will probably attract your Contempt To-Morrow.
** 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter 6, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
** 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 3, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:Dr. Veraswami had a passionate admiration for the English, which a thousand snubs from Englishmen had not shaken.
** 1939 April 14, John Steinbeck, chapter 19, in The Grapes of Wrath, New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →OCLC; Compass Books edition, New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, 1967, →OCLC:[…] in the towns, the storekeepers hated them because they had no money to spend. There is no shorter path to a storekeeper’s contempt, and all his admirations are exactly opposite. The town men, little bankers, hated Okies because there was nothing to gain from them.
* (obsolete) Wondering or questioning (without any particular positive or negative attitude to the subject).
** c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:Lear. Your name, fair gentlewoman? Goneril. This admiration, sir, is much o’ th’ savour Of other your new pranks.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 17:6:And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
** 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 270-272:[…] Admiration seized All Heaven, what this might mean, and whither tend, Wondering;
* (obsolete) Cause of admiration; something to excite wonder, or pleased surprise.
** c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act ALL'S WELL, scene ii], page 1:Now, good Lafeu, Bring in the admiration; that we with thee May spend our wonder too, or take off thine By wondering how thou took’st it.

#### Synonyms

* (positive emotion including wonder and approbation): approval, appreciation, adoration, reverence, wonder, worship

#### Derived terms

* admirational
* mark of admiration
* mutual admiration society
* note of admiration
* self-admiration

#### Translations
## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin admirātiōnem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ad.mi.ʁa.sjɔ̃/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

admiration f (plural admirations)
* admiration
** Plein d’admiration pour son adversaire, chacun lève sa propre visière : "Elsseneur ! ...", "Réginald ! ..."Full of admiration for his enemy, each raised his own visor: "Elsinore!" ... "Reginald!" ...(Les Chants de Maldoror - Chant V)

#### Descendants

* → Bulgarian: адмира́ция (admirácija)

### Further reading

* “admiration”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Scots
### Noun

admiration (plural admirations)
* admiration

### References

* Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online