Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Admirableness.
- noun Bailey.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Admirableness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun That quality which produces
admiration orwonder
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun admirable excellence
Etymologies
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Examples
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While Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Nelson Mandela ranked ahead of Gates this year, the tech luminary has seen his "admirability" status rise over the last several years.
Bill Gates More Admired Than The Pope, Dalai Lama The Huffington Post 2010
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While Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Nelson Mandela ranked ahead of Gates this year, the tech luminary has seen his "admirability" status rise over the last several years.
Bill Gates More Admired Than The Pope, Dalai Lama The Huffington Post 2010
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But there was a kind of admirability in her perseverance and hanging in there.
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But there was a kind of admirability in her perseverance and hanging in there.
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In these films, Naruse repeatedly found beautiful, economical, and multifaceted ways of exploring his favorite topic - the futility of hope (despite the admirability and beauty of the hopeful) - that forms his overarching pessimism.
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Hagakure presents a philosophy starkly different from modern Western standards, yet it retains a curious appeal even now: the strange admirability of a life lived without compromise.
Slugger O'Toole 2009
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Hagakure presents a philosophy starkly different from modern Western standards, yet it retains a curious appeal even now: the strange admirability of a life lived without compromise.
Slugger O'Toole 2009
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In these films, Naruse repeatedly found beautiful, economical, and multifaceted ways of exploring his favorite topic - the futility of hope (despite the admirability and beauty of the hopeful) - that forms his overarching pessimism. "
GreenCine Daily 2009
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