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noun

Disesteem n. Want of esteem; low estimation, inclining to dislike; disfavor; disrepute. "Disesteem and contempt of the public affairs."

verb

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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... The disesteem in which the slavetraders were held was so great and general in the Southern community as to produce a social ostracism. The prevailing sentiment was expressed, with perhaps a little exaggeration, by D.R. Hundley of Alabama in his analysis ...

— American Negro Slavery - A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime • Ulrich Bonnell Phillips

... After considerable discussion Aaron Burns was made head of a civilian committee to take charge of all prisoners. It was moved and carried that no city or county official should be admitted to membership, a striking commentary on the disesteem in which such men were held. Permanent headquarters were arranged for; committees appointed for the solicitation of funds. A dozen other matters of similar detail were taken up, intelligently discussed, and provided for with ...

— The Gray Dawn • Stewart Edward White

... 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 of our occasions ...

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

... the COLLEGE may be owned for the bringing forth such as are somewhat known in the world, and have read and wrote as much as many have done in other places? And yet the College for ever puts all possible marks of disesteem upon me. If I were the greatest blockhead that ever came from it, or the greatest blemish that ever came to it, they could not easily show me more contempt than ...

— Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II • Charles Upham

... subjects, ought never to be confounded with permanent self-appointed societies, usurping the right to control the constituted authorities and to dictate to public opinion. While the former is entitled to respect, the latter is incompatible with all government and must either sink into general disesteem or finally overturn ...

— Life And Times Of Washington, Volume 2 • John Frederick Schroeder and Benson John Lossing

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