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

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

Her colleagues’ execution of Sosa, she bemoaned, “marks yet another low point in this court’s esteem for its precedents.”

From Slate Jun. 24, 2026

“The NBA should desire to protect and esteem women, many of whom work diligently every day to make this the best basketball league in the world,” Kornet wrote.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 2, 2026

There are storylines wherever you look with O'Neill, such is his history with Celtic and the esteem in which he is held by fellow managers and both former and current players.

From BBC Jan. 29, 2026

If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth’s change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty.

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

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

"Monseigneur the Duke esteems the young man, and commended him to my care," cried the leech.

From The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories by Balzac, Honor? de

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

At 99, Saar is among L.A.’s most esteemed and accomplished living artists.

From Los Angeles Times May 3, 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

“Do whatever you wish, esteemed guest,” said Werfel bitterly.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin

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

Whether that he was less on his guard on this evening, or that, esteeming Tate's perceptions at no very high rate, so it is, he talked more freely and unadvisedly than was his wont.

From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) by Lever, Charles James

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 Bourne, Benjamin Franklin

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 Hayward, John




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