existimation

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  1. Esteem; estimation. If … a man should bring forth any thing that he hath read done in times past, or that he hath seen done in other places; there the hearers fare as though the whole existimation of their wisdom were in jeopardy to be overthrown. Sir T. More, Utopia (tr. by Robinson), i. Men's existimation follows us according to the company we keep. Spectator, No. 456.

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  • And although he had no opinion of reputed felicities below, and apprehended men widely out in the estimate of such happiness, yet his sober contempt of the world wrought no Democratism or Cynicism, no laughing or snarling at it, as well understanding there are not felicities in this world to satisfy a serious mind; and therefore, to soften the stream of our lives, we are fain to take in the reputed contentions of this world, to unite with the crowd in their beatitudes, and to make ourselves happy by consortion, opinion, or co-existimation: for strictly to separate from received and customary felicities, and to confine unto the rigor of realities, were to contract the consolation of our beings unto too uncomfortable circumscriptions. —  Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6
 

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  1. from Latin existimatio(n-), judgment, opinion, estimation, from existimare, existumare, judge, estimate, from ex, out, + æstimare, æstumare, value, estimate: see esteem, estimate.
 

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