Respected vs Esteem - What's the difference?
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As verbs the difference between respected and esteem is that respected is ( respect) while esteem is to set a high value on; to regard with respect or reverence. As an adjective respected is describing one considered to be deserving of respect, who is due special honor or appreciation. As a noun esteem is favourable regard.
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respected English
Adjective
( en adjective)
Describing one considered to be deserving of respect, who is due special honor or appreciation.
- He was a well respected jurist and his death will be a loss to the profession.
Synonyms
* admired, well-regarded
Verb
(head)
(respect)
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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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