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"text": "admiration of a war hero",
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"text": "They looked at the landscape in admiration.",
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"ref": "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:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "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:",
"text": "A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.",
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"ref": "1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 3, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:",
"text": "Dr. Veraswami had a passionate admiration for the English, which a thousand snubs from Englishmen had not shaken.",
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"ref": "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:",
"text": "[…] 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.",
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vosxiščénije",
"sense": "adoration; appreciation",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "восхище́ние"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vostórg",
"sense": "adoration; appreciation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "восто́рг"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "adoration; appreciation",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"neuter"
],
"word": "дивљење"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "adoration; appreciation",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"neuter"
],
"word": "divljenje"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "adoration; appreciation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "obdiv"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "adoration; appreciation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "admiración"
},
{
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "adoration; appreciation",
"word": "abos"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "adoration; appreciation",
"word": "beundran"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "adoration; appreciation",
"word": "paghanga"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "gaan chêun chom",
"sense": "adoration; appreciation",
"word": "การชื่นชม"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "adoration; appreciation",
"word": "hayranlık"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "zaxóplennja",
"sense": "adoration; appreciation",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "захо́плення"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "adoration; appreciation",
"word": "sự khâm phục"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "adoration; appreciation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "edmygedd"
},
{
"code": "fy",
"lang": "West Frisian",
"sense": "adoration; appreciation",
"word": "bewûndering"
}
],
"word": "admiration"
}
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