esteem.' name='description'> esteem'd - definition and meaning

Definitions

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  • verb archaic Simple past tense and past participle of esteem.

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Examples

  • Little thought, that little fatherless Boy would be one day known and esteem'd by the most learned, the most respected, the wisest and the best men of the

    Letter 27 2009

  • Her Family and Fortune have enrich'd and honoured thee, brought thee to be esteem'd and respected, above thy Merit!

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • Then it was, that I esteem'd every Thing that she lik'd, and she approv'd whatsoever I commended; and this according to the Dictates of our natural

    Exilius 2008

  • Exilia being thus esteem'd by the Queen, her Majesty was graciously pleas'd to ask her about her Country and Kindred; which gave her an Opportunity to let her

    Exilius 2008

  • I had not yet pass'd the Dog − days of Bosvil's hot Pursuits; but at his Return he treated me in another Manner than ever: If before he admir'd, honour'd, or esteem'd me, he now doted, ador'd, and dy'd for me; vow'd a thousand

    The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia 2008

  • Her Family and Fortune have enrich'd and honoured thee, brought thee to be esteem'd and respected, above thy Merit!

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • Inferiours, and her Prudence made her esteem'd by Equals and Superiours, and by none more than by her Majesty.

    Exilius 2008

  • I had not yet pass'd the Dog − days of Bosvil's hot Pursuits; but at his Return he treated me in another Manner than ever: If before he admir'd, honour'd, or esteem'd me, he now doted, ador'd, and dy'd for me; vow'd a thousand

    The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia 2008

  • How lightly oft thy work by all the world's esteem'd!

    Paul Gerhardt as a Hymn Writer and his Influence on English Hymnody 1976

  • Before the Spaniards made themselves Masters of Mexico, no other drink was esteem'd but that of cocoa; none caring for wine, notwithstanding the soil produces vines everywhere in great abundance of itself.

    Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer Arthur William Knapp

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