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ADMIRED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Regarded with admiration
Classified under:
Similar:
loved (held dear)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb admire
Context examples:
She admired him for contriving it, though not able to give him much credit for the manner in which it was announced.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
And so saying, she took the screens out of her sister-in-law's hands, to admire them herself as they ought to be admired.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
I may, perhaps, claim this: that through life I have never felt a touch of jealousy as I have admired a better man than myself, and that I have always seen all things as they are, myself included, which should count in my favour now that I sit down in my mature age to write my memories.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I had often admired my friend’s courage, but never more than now, as he sat quietly checking off a series of incidents which must have combined to make up a day of horror.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But it is nice to be praised and admired, and I can't help saying I like it, said Meg, looking half ashamed of the confession.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
She was greatly admired, of course?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The others are very much admired too, but I believe Isabella is the handsomest.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
He had seen you indeed, before he came to Bath, and admired you, but without knowing it to be you.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
And the more he knew, the more passionately he admired the universe, and life, and his own life in the midst of it all.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I admired the strength, comeliness, and speed of the inhabitants; and such a constellation of virtues, in such amiable persons, produced in me the highest veneration.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
