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Esteem vs Accomplishment - What's the difference?

esteem | accomplishment |

As nouns the difference between esteem and accomplishment

is that esteem is favourable regard while accomplishment is the act of accomplishing; entire performance; completion; fulfillment; as, the accomplishment of an enterprise, of a prophecy, etc.

As a verb esteem

is to set a high value on; to regard with respect or reverence.

esteem

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic) * esteeme (obsolete)

Noun

(-)
  • favourable regard
  • Derived terms

    * self-esteem

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To set a high value on; to regard with respect or reverence.
  • * Bible, Job xxxvi. 19
  • Will he esteem thy riches?
  • * Tennyson
  • You talk kindlier: we esteem you for it.
  • To regard something as valuable; to prize.
  • To look upon something in a particular way.
  • Mary is an esteemed member of the community.
  • * Bible, Deuteronomy xxxii. 15
  • Then he forsook God, which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
  • * Bishop Gardiner
  • Thou shouldst (gentle reader) esteem his censure and authority to be of the more weighty credence.
  • * Hawthorne
  • Famous men, whose scientific attainments were esteemed hardly less than supernatural.
  • * 1843 , '', 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.

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    accomplishment

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of accomplishing; entire performance; completion; fulfillment; as, the accomplishment of an enterprise, of a prophecy, etc.
  • That which completes, perfects, or equips thoroughly; acquirement; attainment; that which constitutes excellence of mind, or elegance of manners, acquired by education or training.
  • * My new accomplishment of dancing. -
  • * Accomplishments befitting a station. -
  • * Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, / And wisdom falls before exterior grace. -
  • Something accomplished; an achievement.