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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Chevron’s pole position garnered it some measure of political esteem in Washington and Caracas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 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
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
"You esteem this Penrose more than you do my lords bannermen. Why?"
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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“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
Such a position would mean something for him, if it meant nothing for anybody else; in such a case a lawyer always esteems himself worthy of his hire; and he sees that he gets it.
From A Woman Perfected by Richard Marsh
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
City remain in talks to sign 18-year-old midfielder Ayyoub Bouaddi from Lille, but it would be a big ask for the Moroccan teenager to fill such esteemed boots.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
It was 1955 and Marcus, a 31-year-old associate professor of chemistry still in the early stages of his career, had found an elementary mistake in the work of an esteemed scientist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 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
Their presence was a courteous gesture toward Judge Tate and Logan Green, esteemed members of their own order.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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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
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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
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
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
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