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esteem | estimable |

As a noun esteem

is favourable regard.

As a verb esteem

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

As an adjective estimable is

worthy of esteem; admirable.

esteem

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Alternative forms

* (archaic) * esteeme (obsolete)

Noun

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  • 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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    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Worthy of esteem; admirable.
  • * 1868 , , Little Women , ch. 22,
    • Mr. March told . . . how devoted Brooke had been, and how he was altogether a most estimable and upright young man.
  • (archaic) Valuable.
  • * 1596 , , The Merchant of Venice , act 1, scene 3:
    • A pound of man's flesh taken from a man
    Is not so estimable , profitable neither,
    As flesh of muttons, beefs, or goats.
  • Capable of being estimated.
  • * 1928 , Louis Kahlenberg and Norbert Barwasser, "On the time of Absorption and Excretion of Boric Acid in Man," Journal of Biological Chemistry , volume 79, iss. 2, page 406:
    • After this time boric acid is always present in estimable amounts.

    References

    * * * * " estimable" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus (Wordsmyth, 2002) * " estimable" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007) * * Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989) ----