admire

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To regard with pleasure, wonder, and approval.
2. v. To have a high opinion of; esteem or respect.
3. v. Chiefly New England & Upper Southern U.S. To enjoy (something): "I just admire to get letters, but I don't admire to answer them” ( Dialect Notes).
4. v. Archaic To marvel or wonder at.
5. v. New England & Upper Southern U.S. To marvel at something. Often used with at.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To regard with wonder or surprise; wonder or marvel at: formerly used literally, but now chiefly in an ironical or sarcastic sense, with reference to meaning 2: as, I admire your audacity.
2. To regard with wonder mingled with approbation, esteem, reverence, or affection; feel admiration for; take pleasure in the beauty or qualities of; look on or contemplate with pleasure.
3. To wonder; be affected with surprise; marvel: sometimes with at.
4. To feel or express admiration.
5. To feel pleasure; be pleased: as, I should admire to go.

Wiktionary

1. v. obsolete, transitive To be amazed at.
2. v. transitive To regard with wonder and delight.
3. v. transitive to look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love or reverence;
4. v. transitive to estimate or prize highly; as, to admire a person of high moral worth, to admire a landscape.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. Archaic To regard with wonder or astonishment; to view with surprise; to marvel at.
2. v. 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.
3. v. To wonder; to marvel; to be affected with surprise; -- sometimes with at.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. feel admiration for
2. v. look at with admiration