esteem
Usage
What are other ways to say esteem?
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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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
Most countries hold us in remarkably lower esteem today than they did a year ago.
From Slate • Apr. 22, 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
In 2026, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is scheduled to open in Los Angeles—another signal event in the return of the heady transports of fantasy illustration to critical and popular esteem.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
I had hoped that by serving him the rest of the week I could win back his esteem.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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