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Estimable

adjective

Deserving of respect or high regard.

Deserving of esteem and respect. Synonyms: good, honorable, respectable. "Ruined the family's good name"

May be computed or estimated. Synonym: computable. "Computable odds" , "Estimable assets"

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"Estimable" Quotes from Famous Books

... a drop of warm water." He bathed the wound thoroughly and in default of a better dressing bound it up with his own handkerchief. "I wish I had some brandy to give you, but there isn't a drop in the place. Your estimable friend appears to have been a teetotaller. I don't doubt he was a pattern of all the virtues.— But for that matter I couldn't give the child publichouse stuff.— Now, my little friend, if you'll lie quiet for five minutes, I'll ...

— Nightfall • Anthony Pryde

... similar kind is an ornament which not only represents things, but does so in a lively and concise manner. Undoubtedly a conciseness in which nothing is lacking, is deservedly praised; that which says precisely only what is necessary, is less estimable; but that which expresses much in a few words is ...

— The Training of a Public Speaker • Grenville Kleiser

... or sculpture than our country could supply,—I sometimes took charge of them on my private responsibility, since our government gives itself no trouble about its stray children, except the seafaring class. But, after a few such experiments, discovering that none of these estimable and ingenuous young men, however trustworthy they might appear, ever dreamed of reimbursing the Consul, I deemed it expedient to take another course with them. Applying myself to some friendly shipmaster, I engaged homeward passages on their behalf, with the understanding that they were ...

— Our Old Home - A Series of English Sketches • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... will let me. But he tells me that one thing is right and the other is wrong; that one is good art and the other is bad; and I listen in amazement, sometimes not without impatience, wondering why an estimable personal prejudice should be thus exalted into a dogma, and uttered in the name of art. For in art there can be no prejudices, only results. If we arc to save people's souls by the writing of verses, well and good. But if not, there is no choice but to admit an absolute freedom of choice. ...

— Silhouettes • Arthur Symons

... Howard being half sister to her grandfather," he said with an amused look. "They can hardly be called near relatives, but are very estimable people, and I think the half day may be passed very pleasantly with them and ...

— Elsie at Home • Martha Finley

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