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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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"Esteem" Quotes from Famous Books

... DEAR MRS. PARKE,—I should esteem it a personal favor if you would allow your daughter Marion to remain with me free from expense to you for another year. She has proved in all regards not only an excellent scholar, but, as I wrote you before, the influence ...

— Miss Ashton's New Pupil - A School Girl's Story • Mrs. S. S. Robbins

... meeting of a literary coterie, soon after the death of the gifted and amiable woman in whose honor it has been put together. When the conversation turned upon the many claims which she possessed on the affections and the esteem of those present, it was resolved that a souvenir volume should be made up from their voluntary contributions, and that the profits arising from the sale should be devoted to erecting a monument over her grave, in the Cemetery of Mount Auburn, near ...

— The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 • Various

... are come to England to make Our Fortune by Our parts, And you Advise to begin with Morality and Flattery. You might as well Advise a Soldier to make his Fortune by Cowardice. No Sir, he, who wou'd gain the Esteem of a Brave, a wise, and a free people, must lash their Vices, and laugh at ...

— The Covent Garden Theatre, or Pasquin Turn'd Drawcansir • Charles Macklin

... of Trafalgar I heard a young lady exclaim, 'I could really wish to have had a brother killed in that action'. There is no doubt that a family in which a suttee takes place feels a good deal exalted in its own esteem and that of the community by the sacrifice. The sister of the Raja of Riwa was one of four or five wives who burned themselves with the remains of the Raja of Udaipur; and nothing in the course ...

— Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official • William Sleeman

... daughter, since I may give you this name now, for I know the secret which this disguise conceals. You have shown so much resolution, ingenuity, and archness in your stratagem, that I forgive you; I think my son will esteem himself happy when he knows that you are the object of his love. You are worth to him more than all the treasures in this world; and I will tell him so. But here he comes: let us divert ourselves with this event. Go and tell all the people ...

— The Love-Tiff • Moliere

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