[f. ADMIRE v. + -ING2.]
1. Wondering; regarding with loving wonder; full of admiration.
1626. D’Ewes, in Ellis, Orig. Lett., I. 322. III. 217. The presence of soe deare a king drew admiring silence.
1784. Trumbull, in Sparks’ Corr. Am. Rev. (1853), IV. 68. The scoff of an admiring world.
1879. McCarthy, Hist. own Times, ii. 313. The voice of admiring friends was tumultuously raised to predict splendid things for him.
† 2. Causing wonder or admiration. Cf. ADMIRE v. 4. Obs.
1610. Gwillim, Heraldry, III. xxii. (1660), 235. Dolphins here are in their naturall form of swimming, wherein they use to marshele their great troopes in admiring order.
