Definition of "esteeming" [esteeming]

• Present participle of esteem. (verb)

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• "You can honor someone simply by acknowledging and esteeming them for who they are."
• "As the empty brass cartridges were ejected, the return boys scrambled on the deck for them, esteeming them as very precious objects and thrusting them, still warm, into the empty holes in their ears."
• "Republican commentators like Newt Gingrich have been esteeming Muslims such for years now."