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† eˈsteemable, a. Obs.
[f. esteem v. + -able.]
= estimable.
c1460[see estimable A. 1]. 1614Speed Theat. Gt. Brit. xliii. 85/2 Were it not for the antiquity that makes it [Apelby] the more esteemable..it would be little better in account than a village. 1661Feltham Resolves ii. lv. 298 If we would be prevalent and esteemable, we ought..to preserve that interest, which never can, but by our own neglect, be lost. 1715–20Pope Iliad vi. note xxxiii, Homer does not paint him [Paris] and Helen..like Monsters..but allows their Characters esteemable Qualifications. 1720Welton Suffer. Son of God II. xiv. 375 The Lowest Places..are not less..Esteemable in the Eye of God, than the most Elevate. 1752Hume Ess. & Treat. (1777) II. 366 That the esteemable qualities alone..are entitled to the appellation of virtues. 1761F. Sheridan Sidney Bidulph iii. 185 A man..every way esteemable in his character. 1828in Webster; and in mod. Dicts. |