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
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
"All of this is being done for cheap clicks online. Then you get loads of nasty comments which then affect your confidence, your self esteem."
From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2026
The move lowered my father in the esteem of his compadres, the other vaqueros of the llano who clung tenaciously to their way of life and freedom.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
“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
Highly as she esteems you, she would think me too young, and not at all the right kind of wife for you.
From Boston Neighbours In Town and Out by Poor, Agnes Blake
In a country that esteemed practicality, fiction was enlisted to speak directly to a cause.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
This title is only awarded by the Congolese president to the most esteemed public figures.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
Being the onstage voice of esteemed auteurs is a privilege Cheng takes seriously, especially when a director’s fans come up to him.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 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
Since she was generally esteemed an unbearable Miss Priss, this did her a world of good and earned her much approval.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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
Her grandmother's mode of esteeming mankind was certainly extraordinary.
From Countess Erika's Apprenticeship by Schubin, Ossip
But we are always learning the old things and esteeming them new.
From The Land of Frozen Suns by Sinclair, Bertrand W.
Giuseppe Rivola, employed for private persons more than for the public, is also deserving of mention, his fellow citizens esteeming him among the best of Abbiati's pupils.
From The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. IV (of 6) from the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Lanzi, Luigi Antonio
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