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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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In a later letter to the US District Judge, Speitan said Pham was one of the "few people I regard with such high respect and esteem".

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

The pair were united by a shared concern for the rights of migrants and held each other in great esteem, despite cultural and religious differences.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

Mainstream culture’s relatively lower esteem for the Green Lantern is absolutely related to cartoonish interpretations of his power in live-action depictions.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

Reddit has risen in the esteem of many marketers because chatbots turn out to love citing its organic threads.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

The move lowered my father in the esteem of his compadres, the other vaqueros of the llano who clung tenaciously to their way of life and freedom.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

“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

This is not contributing to a culture that esteems them.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2012

The lumberman esteems alder wood only for special purposes.

From Trees Worth Knowing by Julia Ellen Rogers

But Mull’s highly accomplished work on canvas, held by some very esteemed institutions, shows the influence of people like Robert Rauschenberg and Anselm Kiefer and combines surrealism with subtle social commentary.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 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

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

At 99, Saar is among L.A.’s most esteemed and accomplished living artists.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2026

In desperation, the two physicians sent for their esteemed colleague Dr. Benjamin Rush.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy

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

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 Leonora Christina Ulfeldt

From many he tooke without iustice, to giue to others without desert: esteeming it no vnequall dealing, that the money of the one, should bee aduentured and expended with the blood of the other.

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

He had given it no attention, esteeming it of no importance what a man so outside his own beat should be thinking of him.

From Abington Abbey A Novel by Archibald Marshall


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