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esteem

1 noun
     
es‧teem1 [uncountable]
a feeling of respect for someone, or a good opinion of someone
hold somebody in high/great esteem
The critics held him in high esteem as an actor.
token/mark of somebody's esteem (=a sign of their respect)
Please accept the small gift we enclose as a mark of our esteem.
esteem for
my father's complete lack of esteem for actors
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