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Definition of Disesteem

1. Noun. The state in which esteem has been lost.

Definition of Disesteem

1. n. Want of esteem; low estimation, inclining to dislike; disfavor; disrepute.

2. v. t. To feel an absence of esteem for; to regard with disfavor or slight contempt; to slight.

Definition of Disesteem

1. Noun. want of esteem; disregard. ¹

2. Verb. To hold little or no esteem for; to consider worthless. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Disesteem

1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Disesteem

Literary usage of Disesteem

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Elements of the Art of Packing as Applied to Special Juries by Jeremy Bentham (1821)
"Rule, concerning disesteem. PROOF of• the Rule.—Ch. Justice, p. 854. " IT is no new doctrine, that if a publication be calculated to alienate the affections ..."

2. Plantation and Frontier Documents: 1649-1863: Illustrative of Industrial by John R. Commons, Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1909)
"OFFICIAL disesteem OF THE BACKWOODS POPULATION IN GEORGIA, 1772 Extract from a letter of James Habersham, lieutenant-governor of Georgia, Savannah, Aug. ..."

3. Orations from Homer to William McKinley by Mayo Williamson Hazeltine (1902)
""disesteem OF THE LAW" SPEECH DELIVERED FROM THE DOCK AT DUBLIN, FEBRUARY ao, 1868 MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN OF THE JURY,— I rise to address you under ..."

4. The Real Shelley: New Views of the Poet's Life by John Cordy Jeaffreson (1885)
"... Etonian Shelley's disesteem of Marriage.—Review of the Romance — Julia and Matilda— Conceits of the Romance reproduced in Laon and ..."

5. The Helpful Science by St. George Jackson Mivart (1895)
"is no cause why we should disesteem it, any more than we should disesteem our baker, because he does not know the most recondite principles of biology; ..."

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