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.
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Her colleagues’ execution of Sosa, she bemoaned, “marks yet another low point in this court’s esteem for its precedents.”
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026
A French speaker, Leo had expressed on various occasions "the great esteem in which he holds our country and her spiritual history", Aveline said earlier in May.
From Barron's ● May 16, 2026
Such esteem should not come as a surprise.
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2026
Born in El Paso, Gloria grew up in L.A.’s Eastside in a family where John F. Kennedy was held in such esteem that one of her nieces was named Jacqueline.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025
She held an esteem for Messengers she didn’t have for other students.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
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Freaks are scroungers, thrifters, salvagers; they’re unmatched in their ability to repurpose the discarded, to find value in things — and in people — that it sometimes seems nobody else wants or esteems.
From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2024
“I know that he esteems her a lot, like all the Jesuits of Argentina and Uruguay, because they consider her their spiritual mother,” Correale told The Associated Press in the runup to the ceremony.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 11, 2024
The great irony, or the sublime absurdity, is that like a priest who practices his faith after the death of God, Daoud esteems Camus even as he exposes the Nobel Prize-winning writer’s blind spots.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 1, 2015
PEN esteems not only exquisite literature, but also the right of all people to express themselves.
From Slate ● May 6, 2015
He esteems you so highly, Prince; he is so sincerely attached to you!”
From Uncle's dream; And The Permanent Husband by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
In a country that esteemed practicality, fiction was enlisted to speak directly to a cause.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
"This was science in action!" esteemed melanoma surgeon John Thompson AO said in a statement paying tribute to his friend.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
Being the onstage voice of esteemed auteurs is a privilege Cheng takes seriously, especially when a director’s fans come up to him.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026
Immigrants lived near the mission, and esteemed Spanish Mexican families lived in large mansions around the churches that dot Old Town in the mid-19th century — many came post-Spanish-Mexican wars.
From Salon ● May 9, 2026
“My esteemed guest might do well to stop calling our ruler ‘the Evil One’ before we reach him.”
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
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What nudged Americans from esteeming fastidious high-culture figures like Muck to idolizing personally crude pop-culture stars like Ruth?
From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2020
The Russians, esteeming ceremony as a proud proletarian power should, outdid themselves in welcome.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He was humiliated by this witness whom he could not deceive, and whom he could not help esteeming.
From The Children of Alsace Les Oberl?s by Bazin, Ren?
But we are always learning the old things and esteeming them new.
From The Land of Frozen Suns by Sinclair, Bertrand W.
I acknowledged the favour, and chose the latter as my duty, esteeming it a happiness to be allowed to console and to serve my anxious husband, afflicted as he subsequently was by illness.
From Memoirs of Leonora Christina Daughter of Christian IV. of Denmark; Written During Her Imprisonment in the Blue Tower at Copenhagen 1663-1685 by Ulfeldt, Leonora Christina
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