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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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
Mentoring played a massive part in my upbringing, and sports teachers and coaches were always held in great esteem.
From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2026
Frederiksen had previously won international esteem and a degree of influence rarely afforded her nation of six million people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
He was, by all accounts, a kindly man who gained the esteem of everyone who met him.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
“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
He knows, sees and esteems everything in due measure.
From Caucasian Legends by Goulbat, Abraam Abraamovich
Ronald Lauder’s esteemed collection of German and Austrian art will be owned and operated by the Met starting in 2028.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 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
So did Redick, who deserves credit for reacting to the late news of Durant’s absence, as he and his esteemed coaching staff drew up effective adjustments on the fly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2026
The Barnetts belonged to a small elite group referred to by the esteemed black sociologist St. Clair Drake as “the Refined.”
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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
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 Hayward, John
Her grandmother's mode of esteeming mankind was certainly extraordinary.
From Countess Erika's Apprenticeship by Schubin, Ossip
So, too, he praised without esteeming, and blackened without hating.
From The Invisible Lodge by Jean Paul
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