[f. ADMIRE v. + -ING1.] Viewing with wonder, reverence, esteem, pleasure. (Now mostly gerundial.)
1603. Florio, Montaigne (1634), 492. That other faculty … often causeth sport and breedeth admiring.
1633. P. Fletcher, Piscat. Ecl., III. xii. 17. Live in her love, and die in her admiring.
1761–2. Hume, Hist. Engl., V. lxviii. (1806), 133. Instead of admiring that a palpable falsehood should be maintained.
