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Definition of Disesteems
1. disesteem [v] - See also: disesteem
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disesteems
Literary usage of Disesteems
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The complete works of Stephen Charnock by Stephen Charnock, James M'Cosh (1865)
"He then that disesteems them for that work, disesteems him that wrought and
engraved them, by the same rule that he that despised the disciples despised ..."
2. The Bookman (1897)
"He possesses the candour which enables him to take the point of view even of what
he disesteems, and, not being a painter, he is not continually handicapped ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1901)
"... one's child going over to a rival battalion, which disesteems our ensigns and
war- cries ; but by your own account it is no worse—the army is all one. ..."
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