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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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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

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

"Abed loved journalism and held it in high esteem because it documents the truth," his father Samir Shaath told AFP, using his dead son's nickname.

From Barron's Jan. 22, 2026

"The outpouring of grief and loss is a reflection of the esteem in which he's held."

From BBC Jan. 17, 2026

Over that he donned the armor that the queen had given him as a token of her esteem.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

“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

“That is how she esteems me,” said the old lady, steeped in bitterness.

From Roumanian Stories Translated from the Original Roumanian by Various

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

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 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

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

That was until Will Thompson’s grandfather, who was a member of the school’s board of trustees as well as an esteemed donor, got wind of the article.

From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan

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

My father may, and I dare say has, just reasons for esteeming him, though no one but himself can discover them.

From Bungay Castle: A Novel. v. 1/2 by Bonhote, Elizabeth

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 Alcott, Amos Bronson




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