different between favour vs admiration
favour
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?fe?.v?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?fe?.v?/
- Rhymes: -e?v?(?)
- Hyphenation: fa?vour
Noun
favour (countable and uncountable, plural favours)
- (British spelling) Standard spelling of favor.
Derived terms
- out of favour
Translations
Verb
favour (third-person singular simple present favours, present participle favouring, simple past and past participle favoured)
- (British spelling) Standard spelling of favor.
- 1611, KJV, Luke 1:28:
- "And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women." —
- 1611, KJV, Luke 1:28:
Usage notes
- Favour is the standard British and Commonwealth spelling. Favor is the standard American spelling, and an alternative in Canada.
Translations
Old French
Noun
favour f (oblique plural favours, nominative singular favour, nominative plural favours)
- Late Anglo-Norman spelling of favor
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admiration
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French admiration, or directly from Latin adm?r?ti?, from prefix ad- (“to, towards”) + m?r? (“I look at”) + -?ti?. Compare the verb admire, and US dialectal terms miration and mirate.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?æd.m??e??.?n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
admiration (countable and uncountable, plural admirations)
- A positive emotion including wonder and approbation; the regarding of another as being wonderful
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Dublin: John Smith, Volume 2, Book 7, Chapter 1, pp. 4-5,[1]
- 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.
- 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Volume 1, Chapter 6,[2]
- A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
- 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days, New York: Harcout Brace Jovanovich, 1974, Chapter 3, p. 40,[3]
- Dr. Veraswami had a passionate admiration for the English, which a thousand snubs from Englishmen had not shaken.
- 1939, John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath, Penguin, 1951, Chapter 19, p. 257,[4]
- […] 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.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Dublin: John Smith, Volume 2, Book 7, Chapter 1, pp. 4-5,[1]
- (obsolete) Wondering or questioning (without any particular positive or negative attitude to the subject).
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act I, Scene 4,[5]
- Lear. Your name, fair gentlewoman?
- Goneril. This admiration, sir, is much o’ th’ savour
- Of other your new pranks.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Revelation 17:6,[6]
- 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.
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 3, lines 270-272,[7]
- […] Admiration seized
- All Heaven, what this might mean, and whither tend,
- Wondering;
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act I, Scene 4,[5]
- (obsolete) Cause of admiration; something to excite wonder, or pleased surprise.
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well, Act II, Scene 1,[8]
- 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.
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well, Act II, Scene 1,[8]
Synonyms
- (positive emotion including wonder and approbation): approval, appreciation, adoration, reverence, wonder, worship
Derived terms
- see admire
Translations
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin admiratio, admirationem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ad.mi.?a.sj??/
Noun
admiration f (plural admirations)
- admiration
- Plein d’admiration pour son adversaire, chacun lève sa propre visière : "Elsseneur ! ...", "Réginald ! ..." (Les Chants de Maldoror - Chant V) - Full of admiration for his enemy, ...
Further reading
- “admiration” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Scots
Noun
admiration (plural admirations)
- admiration
References
- Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online
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