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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The pair were united by a shared concern for the rights of migrants and held each other in great esteem, despite cultural and religious differences.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 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
Mentoring played a massive part in my upbringing, and sports teachers and coaches were always held in great esteem.
From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2026
In view of these limitations, and knowing Father's esteem for conciseness, I have listed here the revised round of duties he will from now on be expected to perform.'
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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“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
It gives her no pleasure to move in high society, and she esteems the stupid humdrum of domestic life as the very supreme of happiness.
From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II by Charles James Lever
City remain in talks to sign 18-year-old midfielder Ayyoub Bouaddi from Lille, but it would be a big ask for the Moroccan teenager to fill such esteemed boots.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Ronald Lauder’s esteemed collection of German and Austrian art will be owned and operated by the Met starting in 2028.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
In 1995, this risky act helped the family secure the esteemed Payaso de Oro: the top prize at the International Circus Festival of Monte-Carlo, an award comparable to soccer’s Ballon d’Or or music’s Grammy.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 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
I’ll go to the most esteemed music conservatory on the East Coast—the Juilliard School—and from there, it’s only a matter of time before I reach my ultimate goal: first chair in the New York Philharmonic.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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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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She, on her part, grateful for this attachment and at the same time esteeming his mind and character, reciprocated with her whole heart.
From Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland by Henryk Sienkiewicz
St. Ambrose sold the sacred vessels of the Church of Milan to rescue prisoners from the Goths, esteeming it their truest consecration to the service of God.
From Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs by William Henry Withrow
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 Elizabeth Bonhote
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