Prestige vs Admire - What's the difference?
prestige | admire |
(obsolete) Delusion; illusion; trick.
* :
The quality of how good the reputation of something or someone is, how favourably something or someone is regarded.
(obsolete) To be amazed at; to view with surprise; to marvel at.
*, II.2.4:
* Fuller
To regard with wonder and delight.
to look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love or reverence;
to estimate or prize highly.
As a noun prestige
is delusion; illusion; trick.As a verb admire is
to be amazed at; to view with surprise; to marvel at.prestige
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(-)- The sophisms of infidelity, and the prestiges of imposture.
- Oxford has a university of very high prestige .
Derived terms
* covert prestige * overt prestige * prestigiousExternal links
* * * ----admire
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Verb
(admir)- The poor fellow, admiring how he came there, was served in state all day long […].
- examples rather to be admired than imitated
- to admire''' a person of high moral worth, to '''admire a landscape