esteem
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[edit] Etymology
First at end of 16th century; from Middle French estimer, from Latin aestimare (“to value, rate, weigh, estimate”); see estimate, and aim, an older word, partly a doublet of esteem.
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- Rhymes: -iːm
[edit] Noun
esteem (uncountable)
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[edit] Translations
favourable regard
[edit] Verb
esteem (third-person singular simple present esteems, present participle esteeming, simple past and past participle esteemed)
- To regard someone with respect
- Esteem your elders, boy.
- to regard something as valuable; to prize
- to look upon something in a particular way
- Mary is an esteemed member of the community
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. V, The English
- And greatly do I respect the solid character, — a blockhead, thou wilt say; yes, but a well- conditioned blockhead, and the best-conditioned, — who esteems all ‘Customs once solemnly acknowledged’ to be ultimate, divine, and the rule for a man to walk by, nothing doubting, not inquiring farther.
- (obsolete) To judge; to estimate; to appraise
- The Earth, which I esteem unable to reflect the rays of the Sun.
[edit] References
- Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, 1989
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[edit] External links
- esteem in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- esteem in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
