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Definition of Esteems
1. esteem [v] - See also: esteem
Lexicographical Neighbors of Esteems
Literary usage of Esteems
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V.: With a View of the by William Robertson (1809)
"It is the genius of superstition, fond of whatever is pompous or grand, to set
no bounds to its liberality towards persons whom it esteems sacred, ..."
2. Herodotus by Herodotus (1812)
"The Greeks consider Hercules, Bacchus, and Pan, as the youngest of their deities ;
but ^Egypt esteems Pan as the most ancient of the gods, and even of those ..."
3. Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor by Walter Savage Landor (1856)
"There is nothing so visionary as what the world esteems real; nothing so baseless,
nothing so untrue. As horses start aside from objects they see ..."
4. The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guilford, Lord Keeper of by Roger North (1826)
"... he hath one round table not very large, so admirably wrought, representing
all manner of flowers in pots, that he esteems it invaluable. ..."
5. English Synonymes Explained in Alphabetical Order by George Crabb (1826)
"... is not always that which one esteems : a thing is rare which is difficult to be
... esteems ..."
6. Memoirs of Marmontel, Written by Himself: Containing His Literary and by Jean François Marmontel (1807)
"Your professor esteems you. Let us go to him together." In this way he conducted .me to
my professor. ..."
7. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1853)
"He had married in pique, after a disappointment, a Spanish lady of noble birth
and great beauty, whose vocation had been the cloister, and who esteems her ..."
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