admirate

Back-formation from admiration. Equivalent to admire +‎ -ate.

admirate (third-person singular simple present admirates, present participle admirating, simple past and past participle admirated)

1. (non-native speakers' English) To admire.
   • 2000 February 14, [email protected], “Dr. Laura and Oprah”, in alt.radio.talk.dr-laura‎ (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-21:

     I admirate Oprah's capital gains, but as far as her moral life, well, she's a fat whore!

   • 2000 July 24, Hugette.Lespine, “Croats, Serbs and Muslims”, in alt.fifty-plus.friends‎ (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-21:

     We are very admirating of him in France.

   • 2004 April 13, dom's, “What's on the cd player”, in alt.music.led-zeppelin‎ (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-21:

     In fact, Miles went into jazz-rock-funk by deeply participating to create this musical movement end of 60s. So, during this period, he mixed influnces from Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone in jazz and was admirating those musicians.

   • 2010 June 21, Merciadri Luca, “Animated trees”, in comp.text.tex‎ (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-21:

     Yes, but that means that Robin's link is incorrect!
     (But that does not prevent me from admirating Robin's actions for TeX stuff.)

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admirate

1. present adverbial passive participle of admiri

admīrāte

1. vocative masculine singular of admīrātus

admirate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of admirar combined with te