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noun

Esteem n.

Estimation; opinion of merit or value; hence, valuation; reckoning; price. "Most dear in the esteem And poor in worth!" "I will deliver you, in ready coin, The full and dear'st esteem of what you crave."

High estimation or value; great regard; favorable opinion, founded on supposed worth. "Nor should thy prowess want praise and esteem."

Synonyms: See Estimate, n.

verb

Esteem v. t. (past & past part. esteemed; pres. part. esteeming)

To set a value on; to appreciate the worth of; to estimate; to value; to reckon. "Then he forsook God, which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation." "Thou shouldst (gentle reader) esteem his censure and authority to be of the more weighty credence." "Famous men, whose scientific attainments were esteemed hardly less than supernatural."

To set a high value on; to prize; to regard with reverence, respect, or friendship. "Will he esteem thy riches?" "You talk kindlier: we esteem you for it."

Synonyms: To estimate; appreciate; regard; prize; value; respect; revere. See Appreciate, Estimate.

Esteem v. i. To form an estimate; to have regard to the value; to consider. (Obs.) "We ourselves esteem not of that obedience, or love, or gift, which is of force."

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... want to take her over the sea? She did not belong to anybody; she knew that now, and at times it gave her a mortifying pain. Some of the ladies had occasionally noticed her and talked with her, but she had a quick consciousness that they did not esteem her of their kind. She liked the lovely surroundings of their lives, the rustle of their gowns, the glitter of the jewels some of them wore, their long, soft white fingers, so different from the stubby hands of the habitans. Hers were slim, with pink nails that looked ...

— A Little Girl in Old Detroit • Amanda Minnie Douglas

... The esteem of Diodoros was dear to him, and, when his young comrade spoke to him, he felt at first as though he were doing him an unexpected honor; but then he fell back into the suspicion that this was only for ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... recompense him for the affront he had received. What profited it him that the Princes and people of Germany joined in unanimous expression of affection and esteem, that he could scarcely set foot outside his house for the enthusiastic crowd who cheered and followed him through the streets of Berlin? For twenty-four years he had been Prussian Minister and now he was told he was in the way. His successor was ...

— Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire • James Wycliffe Headlam

... not long in discovering some flagrant contradictions in his mental attitude. He longed with all the charity of his gentle heart for the reign of universal peace. Yet at the same time he had a penchant for civil war, and held in high esteem that Farinata degli Uberti, who loved his native Florence so boldly and so well that he constrained her by force and fraud, making the Arbia run red with Florentine blood the while, to will and think precisely what he ...

— The Well of Saint Clare • Anatole France

... king-baiting, for Barney showed neither rancor nor outraged majesty at their keenest thrusts, instead, often joining in the laugh with them at his own expense. They thought it odd that the king should hold his dignity in so low esteem, but that he was king they never doubted, attributing his denials to a disposition to deceive them, and rob them of the "king's ransom" they had already commenced to consider ...

— The Mad King • Edgar Rice Burroughs

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