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esteem | estimably |

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 adverb estimably is

in an estimable manner; deserving of esteem.

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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    estimably

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    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In an estimable manner; deserving of esteem.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1853, author=Fredrika Bremer, title=The Home, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The name of the sisters Frank stood estimably at the head of this useful establishment; but it is a question whether it would have prospered to such an extent, whether it would have developed itself so beautifully and well without the assistance of a person who, however, has carefully concealed his activity from the eye of the public, and whose name, for that reason, was never praised. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1901, author=Miles Franklin, title=My Brilliant Career, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He had turned her adrift, neither a wife, widow, nor maid, and here she was, one of the most estimably lovable and noble women I have ever met. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=1989, date=April 7, author=Kurt Jacobsen, title=Losing It, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=Director Breillat, screenwriter for Maurice Pialat's estimably gritty Police (1985), thoroughly demolishes every trace of prurience, instead focusing on the almost dizzying conflict within Lili--her confusion over her hunger for life and her anger at it. }}