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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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
Not too long ago, “Bridgerton” was held in the highest esteem in the meeting place between TV fantasy and drab reality.
From Salon • Mar. 4, 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
"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
Graduate Dean George Birkhoff assured Ernest of Harvard’s high esteem for Oppenheimer “as a creative theorist” and confided that the university was willing to appoint him as an associate professor at $6,000.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
