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▪ I. disesteem, n.|dɪsɪˈstiːm|
[f. dis- 9 + esteem n.: cf. next, and obs. F. desestime (Godef.), It. disestimo (Florio).]
The action of disesteeming, or position of being disesteemed; want of esteem; low estimation or regard.
1603Florio Montaigne (1634) 66 The Turkes, a nation equally instructed to the esteeme of armes, and disesteeme of letters. 1670Milton Hist. Eng. i. Wks. (1851) 1 Disesteem and contempt of the public affairs. 1697Dryden Virg. Past. Pref. (1721) I. 76 Pastorals are fallen into Disesteem. 1754Edwards Freed. Will iv. i. 195 Their Worthiness of Esteem or Disesteem, Praise or Dispraise. 1810Bentham Packing (1821) 91 Whatever tends to bring a man in power into ‘disesteem’. 1884Pennington Wiclif ii. 32 The prevailing disesteem in which the Scriptures were held.
▪ II. diseˈsteem, v.
[f. dis- 6 + esteem v.: perh. after F. désestimer (16th c.), It. disestimare.]
1. trans. To regard with the reverse of esteem; to hold in low estimation, regard lightly, think little (or nothing) of, slight, despise.
1594Daniel Cleopatra Ded., Ourselves, whose error ever is Strange notes to like, and disesteem our own. 1629Lynde Via tuta 195 The authority of Prelates would bee disesteemed. 1735Wesley Wks. (1872) XIV. 208 Nor will he at all disesteem the precious pearl, for the meanness of the shell. 1868Helps Realmah (1876) 262 Thinking that he had somehow or other offended Ellesmere, or was greatly disesteemed by him.
†b. To take away the estimation of. Obs. rare.
a1637B. Jonson Underwoods, Ep. to J. Selden 40 What fables have you vex'd, what truth redeem'd,..opinions disesteem'd, Impostures branded.
†c. intr. with of: To think little of, despise: = sense i. Obs. rare.
1659D. Pell Impr. Sea 432 They that are apt to reject, and disesteem of all Scriptural counsel. 1675Brooks Gold. Key Wks. 1867 V. 338 The reason why they so much disesteemed of Christ.
†2. with subord. clause: Not to think or suppose; to think or believe otherwise than. (Cf. esteem v. 5 c.) Obs. rare.
1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. i. iii. 89 We have just reason to deny and disesteem this imaginary Eternity can belong at least to the sublunary World.
Hence diseˈsteemed ppl. a., -ing vbl. n.
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. i. iii. §3 (1873) 20 The disesteeming of those employments wherein youth is conversant. 1618Hist. P. Warbeck in Select. Harl. Misc. (1793) 80 Heroick commiseration of a disesteemed prince. 1669Woodhead St. Teresa i. xxxiv. 242 The undervaluing and disesteeming of all things in this life. 1860Ellicott Life Our Lord ii. 47 A rude and lone village..Nazareth the disesteemed. |