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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Wyeth and Maxfield Parrish—retained critical and popular esteem, but most were ignored by middle-class tastemakers or maligned as conduits of cultural degeneration.
Ada Deer, 88, an esteemed Native American leader from Wisconsin and the first woman to lead the Bureau of Indian Affairs, died Tuesday from natural causes.
From Seattle Times
Lawyers can speak out through groups such as the American Bar Assn., which this week announced a Task Force on Democracy led by esteemed former federal appellate Judge J. Michael Luttig.
From Los Angeles Times
The Alliance Defending Freedom, according to Starr, who was appointed by Trump in 2019, is one of a number of "esteemed non-profit organizations that are dedicated to preserving free speech and religious freedom."
From Salon
Does “Ted Lasso” belong in such esteemed company?
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
