esteem
verb (used with object)
to regard highly or favorably; regard with respect or admiration.
has esteemed
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present perfectof esteem (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Upon persons whom, for the sake of a third, one has esteemed too highly, one avenges himself, when the third no longer exerts the constraining influence, by a so much the greater depreciation of them.
From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul
But look once more at the hot-house Pig in question, as he stoops thoughtfully to the cabbage which derisive Man has esteemed perfectly sound.
From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 3 by Robert H. Newell
He has esteemed it his duty, therefore, to lay this information before His Honour.
From Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson
