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Disesteem v. t. (past & past part. disesteemed; pres. part. disesteeming)

To feel an absence of esteem for; to regard with disfavor or slight contempt; to slight. "But if this sacred gift you disesteem." "Qualities which society does not disesteem."

To deprive of esteem; to bring into disrepute; to cause to be regarded with disfavor. (Obs.) "What fables have you vexed, what truth redeemed, Antiquities searched, opinions disesteemed?"

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"Disesteem" Quotes from Famous Books

... smiling eyes. Everybody was reading the account of the convention, and now and then they discussed it; they spoke of the candidate familiarly; he was "Jimmy" Grayson to them—rarely did they call him Mr. Grayson; but there was no disrespect or disesteem in their use of the diminutive "Jimmy." They merely regarded him as one of themselves, and their position in the matter differed in no wise from that of Mr. Grayson; it was a matter of course with both. To Harley, fresh from other lands, it seemed in the first breath singular, and ...

— The Candidate - A Political Romance • Joseph Alexander Altsheler

... through the Cid. Of Homer, George Chapman's is the heroic translation, though the most literal prose version is the best of all.—2. Herodotus, whose history contains inestimable anecdotes, which brought it with the learned into a sort of disesteem; but in these days, when it is found that what is most memorable of history is a few anecdotes, and that we need not be alarmed, though we should find it not dull, it is regaining credit.—3. Aeschylus, the grandest of the ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I., No. 3, January 1858 - A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics • Various

... friend—that of the coffin—was called irreverent, because he suggested that the dead should be buried in wicker-work baskets, with fern-leaves for shrouds, so that the poor clay might the more easily return to mother earth. Those who favor cremation suffer again a still more frantic disesteem; and yet every one deplores the present gloomy apparatus and dismal observances ...

— Manners and Social Usages • Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

Words linked to "Disesteem" : regard, consider, dishonour, undervalue, reckon, respect, esteem