Synonyms

1. admiration

Sentence Examples

1. that a prince possessed of every quality which procures veneration, love, and esteem of strong parts, great wisdom, and profound learning indued with admirable talents for government, and almost adored by his subjects, should from a nice unnecessary scruple, whereof in Europe we can have no conception, let slip an opportunity put into his hands that would have made him absolute master of the lives, the liberties, and the fortunes of his people.
2. She answered with great humility that she was called La Tolosa, and that she was the daughter of a cobbler of Toledo who lived in the stalls of Sanchobienaya, and that wherever she might be she would serve and esteem him as her lord.
3. There, indeed, lay real pleasure, for there she was giving up the sweetest hours of the twenty-four to his comfort and feeling that, unmerited as might be the degree of his fond affection and confiding esteem, she could not, in her general conduct, be open to any severe reproach.
4. The poor man may retain honour, but not the vicious poverty may cast a cloud over nobility, but cannot hide it altogether and as virtue of itself sheds a certain light, even though it be through the straits and chinks of penury, it wins the esteem of lofty and noble spirits, and in consequence their protection.
5. Yet, his Rogarian brothers continued to hold him in high esteem.
6. Weston was the object of a regard which had its basis in gratitude and esteem.
7. Her esteem for him had continued to grow, until she could no longer deny to herself that there never could have been room for Lach in her heart.
8. As Arthur continued to teach his vast assemblage the necessary qualities for knighthood, Lance felt various sets of eyes on him, as though his earlier speech had somehow elevated him in their esteem.
9. I took and read the letter, which was couched in terms so flattering that even I myself felt it would be wrong in my father not to comply with the request the duke made in it, which was that he would send me immediately to him, as he wished me to become the companion, not servant, of his eldest son, and would take upon himself the charge of placing me in a position corresponding to the esteem in which he held me.
10. Alan had turned away he held the bastard brother in no great esteem.