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Appreciation

noun

Understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something. Synonyms: grasp, hold.

Delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values). Synonyms: discernment, perceptiveness, taste. "To ask at that particular time was the ultimate in bad taste"

An expression of gratitude.

A favorable judgment. Synonym: admiration.

An increase in price or value.

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... Verrieres was an actress and Dupin de Francueil a dilettante. Aurore's grandmother, Marie-Aurore, was very musical, she sang operatic songs, and collected extracts from the philosophers. Maurice Dupin was devoted to music and to the theatre. Even Sophie-Victoire had an innate appreciation of beauty. She not only wept, like Margot, at melodrama, but she noticed the pink of a cloud, the mauve of a flower, and, what was more important, she called her little daughter's attention to such things. This illiterate ...

— George Sand, Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings • Rene Doumic

... though on his knees, feels a little at a loss to know how to acknowledge politely the repeated bows of so many kneeling men and women. He watches with appreciation the perfect response of his Japanese travelling companions. It is difficult to convey a sense of the charm and dignity of old courtesies exchanged with sincerity between well-bred people in a fine old house. Although all the shoji[30] are open, ...

— The Foundations of Japan • J.W. Robertson Scott

... nearly as possible, the condition of involuntary servitude. And the question naturally arises, how long must we wait for a higher and purer expression of fealty to the Union, and for a more intelligent and just appreciation of the question of free colored, labor which the results of the ...

— Report on the Condition of the South • Carl Schurz

... has been actively connected with the last two Victory Loan drives, in the last one raising $15,282,000. As an appreciation of his work the salesmen presented him with a (fifteen million ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Apr 2, 1919 • Various

... doctor said with appreciation. "Couldn't have done it better myself. Right through the intercostal space: no time even ...

— The Man in Lower Ten • Mary Roberts Rinehart

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