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.
Example Sentences
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Wyeth and Maxfield Parrish—retained critical and popular esteem, but most were ignored by middle-class tastemakers or maligned as conduits of cultural degeneration.
Another botanist, John Parkinson, wrote in 1629 that thanks to their sweetness, turnips were: "much esteemed, and often seen as a dish at good men's tables".
From Salon
Yet, alumni such as Gary C. Clark, who graduated in 1969, still insists that what was taught at Fairmont prepared many to embark upon esteemed careers and challenges.
From Washington Post
For thousands of years, Coast Salish people, people indigenous to the region, have held orcas in high esteem — as equals, or respected family members who live under the sea.
From Seattle Times
“So we’re held in great esteem for treating our horses that well,” Ms. Walls said with a big laugh.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
