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Word Meanings - HIGHLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a high manner, or to a high degree; very much; as, highly esteemed.

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  • ESTEEM
    1. To set a value on; to appreciate the worth of; to estimate; to value; to reckon. Then he forsook God, which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. Deut. xxxii. 15. Thou shouldst esteem his censure and authority to be of
  • ESTEEMABLE
    Worthy of esteem; estimable. "Esteemable qualities." Pope.
  • HIGHLY
    In a high manner, or to a high degree; very much; as, highly esteemed.
  • MANNERIST
    One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
  • MANNERISM
    Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
  • ESTEEMER
    One who esteems; one who sets a high value on any thing. The proudest esteemer of his own parts. Locke.
  • DEGREE
    A certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of blood; one remove in the chain of relationship; as, a relation in the third or fourth degree. In the 11th century an opinion began to gain ground in Italy, that third
  • MANNERLINESS
    The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
  • MANNERED
    1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
  • MANNER
    manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
  • MANNERCHOR
    A German men's chorus or singing club.
  • MANNERLY
    Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
  • MISESTEEM
    Want of esteem; disrespect. Johnson.
  • UNMANNERLY
    Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
  • DISESTEEMER
    One who disesteems. Boyle.
  • DISESTEEM
    Want of esteem; low estimation, inclining to dislike; disfavor; disrepute. Disesteem and contempt of the public affairs. Milton.
  • OVERMANNER
    In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
  • ILL-MANNERED
    Impolite; rude.
  • OVERHIGHLY
    Too highly; too greatly.
  • WELL-MANNERED
    Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.
  • SELF-ESTEEM
    The holding a good opinion of one's self; self-complacency.

 

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