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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
esteem
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hold sb/sth in high esteem/regard (=respect them very much)
▪ As an educationalist, he was held in very high esteem.
▪ Romsey earned high praise from his boss.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
▪ With great esteem Yr most faithful &038; Obdt.Sert.
▪ At college he was held in great affection and esteem by his fellow students.
▪ There is also through the training strategy an attempt to give this work greater dignity and esteem.
high
▪ Dudley was recalled in 1587, and, despite his abysmal failures, was held in high esteem at court once again.
▪ We held him in high esteem and placed complete confidence in him.
▪ But during her short acting career, Brown was held in high esteem by the theatrical fraternity in Northern Ireland.
▪ His firm had long claimed to hold the qualities of individual initiative and independent thinking in highest esteem.
▪ A response indicating high self esteem was coded as 2, low self esteem 0, and not sure or missing 1.
▪ I had high esteem for his skills.
▪ As kids, loyal pals, as men now, they justify the respect and high esteem given them.
low
▪ Universities have hardly ever been held in lower esteem.
▪ I think she has low self- esteem.
▪ A response indicating high self esteem was coded as 2, low self esteem 0, and not sure or missing 1.
▪ It was yet another instance of how low in his esteem she stood.
▪ The miller down the ages has made his own peculiar contribution to the low esteem in which he was held.
▪ So the union - and the game - are held in low esteem at present.
Low morale means low esteem and that reflects in quality of work and output of staff.
▪ And yet this is happening at a moment when the leaders in question stand exceptionally low in public esteem.
public
▪ Riding winners was the only way he knew how to re-establish his self-worth, let alone his public esteem.
▪ As the wrangling has stretched into the new year, Clinton has moved up some in public esteem.
▪ And yet this is happening at a moment when the leaders in question stand exceptionally low in public esteem.
▪ Martial acts might also be more dramatic or better recorded for wider public esteem.
▪ Thus, perhaps not surprisingly, medicine and medical practitioners still enjoy considerable public esteem.
social
▪ All this, however, in the search for social esteem and personal uniqueness.
■ VERB
hold
▪ Dudley was recalled in 1587, and, despite his abysmal failures, was held in high esteem at court once again.
▪ We held him in high esteem and placed complete confidence in him.
▪ But during her short acting career, Brown was held in high esteem by the theatrical fraternity in Northern Ireland.
▪ Universities have hardly ever been held in lower esteem.
▪ Those two aspects mean that a small number of people can be members and they are held in some esteem.
▪ He became special assistant to Syme for five years and was held in high esteem by his master and mentor.
▪ So the union - and the game - are held in low esteem at present.
▪ He is held in the highest esteem by all who know him.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ In order to be elected, you've got to attract the support and esteem of the population.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A response indicating high self esteem was coded as 2, low self esteem 0, and not sure or missing 1.
▪ As the wrangling has stretched into the new year, Clinton has moved up some in public esteem.
▪ At present rubies vary greatly in esteem according to their colour and source.
▪ But during her short acting career, Brown was held in high esteem by the theatrical fraternity in Northern Ireland.
▪ It enables people to develop new skills which may enhance confidence and self esteem.
▪ It may be that you do not recognise the deep-seated reasons why you hold some animals in higher esteem than others.
▪ Prestige A further perceived interest relates to the esteem in which a country is held.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
highly
▪ One reason why chalcedony has been so highly esteemed is that it lends itself to a variety of decorative treatments.
▪ True ivory is one of the few substances to have been highly esteemed for symbolic purposes wherever it could be obtained.
▪ Such craftsmen were considered more than mere artisans, and their products, especially set in seal rings, were highly esteemed.
▪ The Piaroa view the arrogant and dominating character, which the Shavante would highly esteem in a mature male, as odious.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The Church teaches people to esteem others more than themselves.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After Cameron, it was wonderful to be so esteemed, so cosseted.
▪ He was attentive but impersonal, and esteemed rather than loved.
▪ I thought that Scripture told me to esteem others more than myself.
▪ The Piaroa view the arrogant and dominating character, which the Shavante would highly esteem in a mature male, as odious.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Esteem

Esteem \Es*teem"\, v. i. To form an estimate; to have regard to the value; to consider. [Obs.]

We ourselves esteem not of that obedience, or love, or gift, which is of force.
--Milton.

Esteem

Esteem \Es*teem"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Esteemed; p. pr. & vb. n. Esteeming.] [F. estimer, L. aestimare, aestumare, to value, estimate; perh. akin to Skr. ish to seek, strive, and E. ask. Cf. Aim, Estimate.]

  1. To set a value on; to appreciate the worth of; to estimate; to value; to reckon.

    Then he forsook God, which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
    --Deut. xxxii. 15.

    Thou shouldst (gentle reader) esteem his censure and authority to be of the more weighty credence.
    --Bp. Gardiner.

    Famous men, -- whose scientific attainments were esteemed hardly less than supernatural.
    --Hawthorne.

  2. To set a high value on; to prize; to regard with reverence, respect, or friendship.

    Will he esteem thy riches?
    --Job xxxvi. 19.

    You talk kindlier: we esteem you for it.
    --Tennyson.

    Syn: To estimate; appreciate; regard; prize; value; respect; revere. See Appreciate, Estimate.

Esteem

Esteem \Es*teem"\, n. [Cf. F. estime. See Esteem, v. t.]

  1. Estimation; opinion of merit or value; hence, valuation; reckoning; price.

    Most dear in the esteem And poor in worth!
    --Shak.

    I will deliver you, in ready coin, The full and dear'st esteem of what you crave.
    --J. Webster.

  2. High estimation or value; great regard; favorable opinion, founded on supposed worth.

    Nor should thy prowess want praise and esteem.
    --Shak.

    Syn: See Estimate, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
esteem

mid-15c., from Old French estimer "to estimate, determine" (14c.), from Latin aestimare "to value, determine the value of, appraise," perhaps ultimately from *ais-temos "one who cuts copper," i.e. mints money (but de Vaan finds this "not very credible"). At first used as we would now use estimate; sense of "value, respect" is 1530s. Related: Esteemed; esteeming.

esteem

(also steem, extyme), mid-14c., "account, value, worth," from French estime, from estimer (see esteem (v.)). Meaning "high regard" is from 1610s.

Wiktionary
esteem

n. favourable regard vb. 1 To set a high value on; to regard with respect or reverence. 2 To regard something as valuable; to prize. 3 To look upon something in a particular way. 4 (context obsolete English) To judge; to estimate; to appraise

WordNet
esteem
  1. n. the condition of being honored (esteemed or respected or well regarded); "it is held in esteem"; "a man who has earned high regard" [syn: regard, respect] [ant: disesteem]

  2. a feeling of delighted approval and liking [syn: admiration]

  3. an attitude of admiration or esteem; "she lost all respect for him" [syn: respect, regard] [ant: disrespect]

  4. v. regard highly; think much of; "I respect his judgement"; "We prize his creativity" [syn: respect, value, prize, prise] [ant: disrespect, disrespect]

  5. look on as or consider; "she looked on this affair as a joke"; "He thinks of himself as a brilliant musician"; "He is reputed to be intelligent" [syn: think of, repute, regard as, look upon, look on, take to be]

Wikipedia
Esteem (album)

Esteem was the debut full-length album for Australian synthpop band Machinations. The album was released in April 1983 on White Label Records, a subsidiary of Mushroom Records.

Usage examples of "esteem".

Captain Toner has aboard a frigate called Endymion someone that I esteem very highly, along with forty other men he took from my ship off the coast of Brittany.

Tyrold did justice to the sincerity of this offer: and the cheerful acquiescence of lessened reluctance, raised her higher in that esteem to which her constant mind invariably looked up, as the summit of her chosen ambition.

Legge, esteemed the two most illustrious patriots of Great Britain, alike distinguished and admired for their unconquerable spirit and untainted integrity.

The sophists of every age, despising, or affecting to despise, the accidental distinctions of birth and fortune, reserve their esteem for the superior qualities of the mind, with which they themselves are so plentifully endowed.

I esteem it also a peculiar advantage, that I succeed to a sovereign whose constant regards for the rights and liberties of his subjects, and whose desire to promote the amelioration of the laws and institutions of the country, have rendered his name the object of general attachment and veneration.

I said that the tone, the manners I adopted towards her, were those of good society, and proved the great esteem I entertained for her intelligence, but in the middle of all my fine speeches, towards the eleventh or twelfth day of my courtship, she suddenly put me out of all conceit by telling me that, being a priest, I ought to know that every amorous connection was a deadly sin, that God could see every action of His creatures, and that she would neither damn her soul nor place herself under the necessity of saying to her confessor that she had so far forgotten herself as to commit such a sin with a priest.

Riviere enchanted me, but I should have esteemed myself wanting in gratitude and respect to this worthy family if I had darted at her a single amorous glance, or if I had let her suspect my feelings for her by a single word.

My esteemed colleagues of the Senate of Rome, I want to tell you a story concerning my good friend the knight Publius Servilius, who is not of the patrician branch of that great family, but shares the ancestry of the noble Publius Servilius Vatia Isauricus.

Singular, communed the guest with himself, the wonderfully unequal faculty of metempsychosis possessed by them, that the puerperal dormitory and the dissecting theatre should be the seminaries of such frivolity, that the mere acquisition of academic titles should suffice to transform in a pinch of time these votaries of levity into exemplary practitioners of an art which most men anywise eminent have esteemed the noblest.

We esteemed a lot of our own archaisms, including a freedom that Earth would probably have considered anarchical, but were we doing enough to preserve them?

A note from the baroness told Madame Aubain that as her husband had been promoted to a prefecture, they were leaving that night, and she begged her to accept the bird as a remembrance and a token of her esteem.

Lady Ava, I am beginning to believe you do not esteem my good company.

I have the honor to present his most esteemed lord, General Beshan Solan.

When the Bishop and Bruer entered with three men deemed to be solid, upstanding citizens of Rothenberg and a notary, she blended into the background, a nonentity invisible to their esteemed eyes.

Her admirable behaviour won her the esteem of all the ladies with whom she came in contact.