admiration

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)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.”

   “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.”

   “A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

   “Dr. Veraswami had a passionate admiration for the English, which a thousand snubs from Englishmen had not shaken.”

2. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Wondering or questioning (without any particular positive or negative attitude to the subject).

   “Lear. Your name, fair gentlewoman? Goneril. This admiration, sir, is much o’ th’ savour Of other your new pranks.”

   “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.”

   “[…] Admiration seized All Heaven, what this might mean, and whither tend, Wondering;”

3. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Cause of admiration; something to excite wonder, or pleased surprise.

   “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.”