estimable

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"I have an object -- estimable, if not quite original."

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  1. adjective Possible to estimate: estimable assets; an estimable distance.
  2. adjective Deserving of esteem; admirable: an estimable young professor.

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  • In his private life he seemed to have been most lovable and estimable, although some of his writings, according to Julian, were "polemical" and "acrid in tone." —  CyberBrethren-A Lutheran Blog
  • "If you want to be estimable, do something estimable," Steblay said. —  The State Hornet
  • I'm glad that you think your opinion is estimable - can you explain why I should hold it in the esteem you seem to think is warranted? —  WordPress.com News
  • He argues that the risk of a true asset class is "estimable". —  pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator (real estate blogs)
  • "She may be very estimable, and her beauty is, I own, of a high order It is the least of her excellences, Sir Ralph," observed Miss Jane, resolved to meet the baronet in his own style That may be," he answered, with a bow; "it is the quality, however, which has probably attracted my son Harry. —  Won from the Waves
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin aestimābilis, from aestimāre, to value.

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  1. from French estimable = Provencal Spanish estimable = Portuguese estimavel = Italian estimabile, stimabile, from Latin æstimabilis, worthy of estimation, from æstimare, value, esteem: see estimate, esteem.
 

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