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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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Mayor of Causeway Coast and Glens, Councillor Dawn Huggins, said Norman Irwin was held in high esteem across the borough and had taken part in many council events over the years.

From BBC Sep. 3, 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

It’s been a beacon of democracy since its founding, and countries all over the world have held it in such high esteem.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 2, 2026

The Dothraki would esteem her all the more for a few bells in her hair.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

“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

Mr. Ripple himself is the smallest man in the Wells, but nobody esteems him the less for that.

From The Passionate Elopement by Compton MacKenzie

In September, in addition to Perry’s book, they’ll also be publishing two novels by esteemed French writer Marie Darrieussecq.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

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

Keegan is among the most esteemed military historians who ever lived, and A History of Warfare was a critically acclaimed bestseller.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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

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

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

But we are always learning the old things and esteeming them new.

From The Land of Frozen Suns by Bertrand W. Sinclair




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