the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The quality of being admirable; wonderful excellence.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The quality of being admirable; the power of exciting admiration.
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n. admirable excellence
Word Usage
"Whatsoever makes distinguished order and admirableness in Nature makes the same in man; and never was there a fine deed that was not begot of the same impulse and ruled by the same laws to which solar systems are due."