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disesteem

[dis-i-steem]

verb (used with object)

to hold in low regard; think unfavorably of.

noun

lack of esteem; disfavor; low regard.

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Origin:
1585–95; dis-¹ + esteem

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disesteem (ˌdɪsɪˈstiːm)

—vb
1.	(tr) to think little of

—n
2.	lack of esteem

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"The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary."

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