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esteem

[ih-steem] / ɪˈstim /




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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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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

Robert Coover’s “The Universal Baseball Association Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.” has grown in esteem since the novel was first published in 1968.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

Mentoring played a massive part in my upbringing, and sports teachers and coaches were always held in great esteem.

From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2026

Not too long ago, “Bridgerton” was held in the highest esteem in the meeting place between TV fantasy and drab reality.

From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2026

"On more than that, I hope, sweet lady. I have great esteem for your husband, our new Hand, and I know we do both love King Robert."

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

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

I have sacrificed everything to him; I have a right to expect that he should sacrifice at least a wife for me—a wife whom he only esteems.

From Leonora by Maria Edgeworth

In a country that esteemed practicality, fiction was enlisted to speak directly to a cause.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 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

The 36-year-old, who co-ran the esteemed Fulgurances restaurant in Paris and New York before opening Gigi's this month, said his pricing falls in line with industry standards.

From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026

Two of our esteemed gubernatorial candidates, the cowboy and the dilettante, apparently could not find ties for the first debate Wednesday night, showing up with dress shirts casually unbuttoned.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026

“Do we dare go down that path? My fellow lawmakers. My esteemed senators. Can we take that chance?”

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

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

The Normans marched with a song of the valiant acts of Rowland, esteeming nothing of perill in regard of the glory of their aduenture.

From The Lives of the III Normans, Kings of England: William the First, William the Second, Henrie the First by John Hayward

“Trial of all who judged best In esteeming the love of a man.”

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe

In point of fact, they did not abandon their idea for an hour, esteeming themselves the only men in Paris who had not lost their heads.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary




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