esteem
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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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Kenny added that Fr Doyle was held in great esteem by his own men, but was also noted for his kindness and mercy towards injured German prisoners-of-war.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 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
That was esteem and respect, and we used to joke a lot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 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
The captain nodded, and the chaplain gazed at his porous, gray pallor of fatigue and malnutrition with a mixture of pity and esteem.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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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
My father esteems him highly, though he is not always ready to follow whither he would lead.
From Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
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
"This was science in action!" esteemed melanoma surgeon John Thompson AO said in a statement paying tribute to his friend.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 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
I imagined how esteemed I would be, as a newly cleansed vessel.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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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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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
And this he did from a sense of its suitableness to promote the best ends and aims; esteeming his gifts and accomplishments due to pursuits which seemed the natural means of securing self-respect and independence.
From Tablets by Amos Bronson Alcott
He had given it no attention, esteeming it of no importance what a man so outside his own beat should be thinking of him.
From Abington Abbey A Novel by Archibald Marshall
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