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单词 appreciating
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appreciatingadj.

Brit. /əˈpriːʃɪeɪtɪŋ/, /əˈpriːsɪeɪtɪŋ/, U.S. /əˈpriʃiˌeɪdɪŋ/, /əˈprɪʃiˌeɪdɪŋ/
Forms: see appreciate v. and -ing suffix2.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: appreciate v., -ing suffix2.
Etymology: < appreciate v. + -ing suffix2.
1. Showing or involving appreciation; appreciative; (in early use also) evaluative.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > [adjective]
regardant1581
regardful1582
conceited1589
considerate1592
appreciative1593
opinionated1630
appreciating1662
appreciatory1819
1662 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 3rd Pt. 80 Shew what appreciating thoughts thou hast of that blissful state.
1683 in S. Annesley Contin. Morning-exercise Questions viii. 186 The valuation and Love mankind hath for any thing, are inseparable; indeed Love is an appretiating affection.
1702 S. Slater Disc. Preciousness God's Thoughts 174 The Heart be indeed taken with God, and boiling or bubling up appretiating Thoughts of him.
1803 tr. A. L. G. Staël Treat. Anc. & Mod. Lit. II. iii. 135 Of what benefit is an appreciating and cool judgment in our numerous modern associations?
1857 M. S. Cummins Mabel Vaughan xxxvi. 435 Harry has an appreciating disposition..and his good heart makes him grateful.
1884 W. C. Hazlitt Offspring Thought 261 The gout let him live long enough to see many and many an impression of Joe Miller's Jests pass from the bookseller's counter to the always-rightly-appreciating public.
1914 R. Wright Open Door xxii. 386 Of Sallie, he could only think with an appreciating smile.
1960 Art Educ. 13 i. 8/2 Serious art on the producing or the appreciating side is not for the lazy.
2004 Washington Post (Nexis) 17 June c1 Ty Murray..wore a cowboy hat and the tightest Wrangler jeans imaginable, which drew many an appreciating glance across the gender gap.
2. Originally U.S. Of a currency, asset, etc.: that is increasing in value.
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1820 Niles' Weekly Reg. 25 Mar. 70/1 All the evils incident to an appreciating currency will be felt in those states, though in a less degree than where a paper currency had been exclusively adopted.
1879 N. Amer. Rev. Sept. 232 The effects of the appreciating dollar, such as we have had during the last ten years, are, of course, in every respect the opposite of those we have just depicted.
1920 Amer. Econ. Rev. 10 72 It [sc. England] is an old, conservative, economic organism where..fortunes are less often made through trafficking in appreciating assets.
1948 G. W. Southgate Eng. Econ. Hist. (new ed.) xxxi. 303 Not the least effect of the war of 1914–18 was its effect on the money systems of the world—the violent fluctuations in price movements due to depreciating and appreciating currencies..changed conditions.
1988 Broadcasting 2 Sept. 6/5 Central's 650 hours programme library is also an appreciating asset.
2002 S. Sen in A. K. Bagchi Money & Credit Indian Hist. 190 It is not possible to interpret such improvements in India's trade balance in the face of the appreciating rupee by price movements alone.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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