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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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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

That was esteem and respect, and we used to joke a lot.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

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

This included the esteem accorded to women who held life-giving roles as healers and midwives.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

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

The king of Spain esteems this port a place of consequence, being near to Peru, there being only seventeen leagues to Panama, which is on the south coast.

From Narrative of a Voyage to the West Indies and Mexico In the Years 1599-1602 by Samuel de Champlain

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

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 2026

In 1995, this risky act helped the family secure the esteemed Payaso de Oro: the top prize at the International Circus Festival of Monte-Carlo, an award comparable to soccer’s Ballon d’Or or music’s Grammy.

From Los Angeles Times May 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

Tell Arts they have no soundness, But vary by esteeming; Tell Schools they lack profoundness And stand too much on seeming: If Arts and Schools reply, Give Arts and Schools the lie.

From Tablets by Amos Bronson Alcott

There must be ample ground for esteeming him guilty before this extraordinary power vested in the judge could be exercised.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea

I took no thought for the morrow, but, according to the scriptural injunction, suffered the morrow to take care for the things of itself, esteeming sufficient unto each day the evil thereof.

From The Captive in Patagonia by Benjamin Franklin Bourne




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