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esteemed, ppl. a.|ɪˈstiːmd|
[f. esteem v. + -ed1.]
Held in esteem, valued, respected. Much in vogue as a complimentary epithet in commercial correspondence.
1549Cheke Hurt Sedit. C iij b, What an hynderaunce is it, to haue a good garmente hurte..or anye estemed thyng to be decaied. 1647–8Sir C. Cotterell Davila's Hist. Fr. (1678) 8 A man of subtil wit, and esteemed valour. 1781J. Moore View Soc. It. (1790) II. lxxviii. 450 Ornamented with some highly esteemed sculpture in wood. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xviii, According to the esteemed qualities of the time. 1871Carlyle in Mrs. Carlyle's Lett. I. 247 An esteemed tutor in noble families. 1903Daily Chron. 25 Feb. 7/2 Sir, yours of even date to hand. If you can make it convenient, we should be glad if you could come on Wednesday morning to try on your esteemed favour. 1905H. G. Wells Kipps i. ii. 37 He [sc. a draper] never acknowledged an order that was not an esteemed favour. |