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▪ I. admiring, vbl. n.|ædˈmaɪərɪŋ|
[f. admire v. + -ing1.]
Viewing with wonder, reverence, esteem, pleasure. (Now mostly gerundial.)
1603Florio Montaigne (1634) 492 That other faculty..often causeth sport and breedeth admiring. 1633P. Fletcher Piscat. Ecl. iii. xii. 17 Live in her love, and die in her admiring. 1761–2Hume Hist. Engl. V. lxviii. (1806) 133 Instead of admiring that a palpable falsehood should be maintained.
▪ II. admiring, ppl. a.|ædˈmaɪərɪŋ|
[f. admire v. + -ing2.]
1. Wondering; regarding with loving wonder; full of admiration.
1626D'Ewes in Ellis Orig. Lett. i. 322 III. 217 The presence of soe deare a king drew admiring silence. 1784Trumbull in Sparks Corr. Am. Rev. (1853) IV. 68 The scoff of an admiring world. 1879McCarthy Hist. own Times ii. 313 The voice of admiring friends was tumultuously raised to predict splendid things for him.
†2. Causing wonder or admiration. Cf. admire v. 4. Obs.
1610J. Guillim Heraldry iii. xxii. (1660) 235 Dolphins here are in their naturall form of swimming, wherein they use to marshele their great troopes in admiring order. |
