Eulogise vs Esteem - What's the difference?
eulogise | esteem | Related terms |
To praise, celebrate or pay homage to someone, especially in an eloquent formal eulogy.
favourable regard
To set a high value on; to regard with respect or reverence.
* Bible, Job xxxvi. 19
* Tennyson
To regard something as valuable; to prize.
To look upon something in a particular way.
* Bible, Deuteronomy xxxii. 15
* Bishop Gardiner
* Hawthorne
* 1843 , '', book 3, ch. V, ''The English
(obsolete) To judge; to estimate; to appraise
Eulogise is a related term of esteem.
As verbs the difference between eulogise and esteem
is that eulogise is to praise, celebrate or pay homage to someone, especially in an eloquent formal eulogy while esteem is to set a high value on; to regard with respect or reverence.As a noun esteem is
favourable regard.eulogise
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Alternative forms
* eulogize (US)Verb
(eulogis)Anagrams
*esteem
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Alternative forms
* (archaic) * esteeme (obsolete)Noun
(-)Derived terms
* self-esteemVerb
(en verb)- Will he esteem thy riches?
- You talk kindlier: we esteem you for it.
- Mary is an esteemed member of the community.
- Then he forsook God, which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
- Thou shouldst (gentle reader) esteem his censure and authority to be of the more weighty credence.
- Famous men, whose scientific attainments were esteemed hardly less than supernatural.
- 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.
- The Earth, which I esteem unable to reflect the rays of the Sun.
