esteem
Usage
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To esteem is to feel respect combined with a warm, kindly feeling. To appreciate is to exercise wise judgment, delicate perception, and keen insight in realizing the worth of something. To value is to attach importance to a thing because of its worth (material or otherwise). To prize is to value highly and cherish.
Example Sentences
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Mentoring played a massive part in my upbringing, and sports teachers and coaches were always held in great esteem.
From BBC
Frederiksen had previously won international esteem and a degree of influence rarely afforded her nation of six million people.
Her esteemed position in the community, with the church, and as someone who could speak almost unaccented English seemed to supersede her position as a woman.
From Literature
But no one expected a live demonstration, and certainly not from one of the esteemed artists featured within the museum’s pristinely pruned collection.
From Salon
"I learned about the result of the vote of the esteemed Assembly of Experts at the same time as you and through the Islamic Republic's television."
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
