estimation
/ˌɛs.təˈmeɪ.ʃən/ noun C1- The process of making an estimate. · According to my estimations, we should get to the border in five hours, give or take.· The publisher made an estimation on the potential value of the new novel.
- The amount, extent, position, size, or value reached in an estimate.
- Esteem or favourable regard. · With that performance last night, you've gone up in the director's estimation.
Plural estimations
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With respect to Wickham, the travellers soon found that he was not held there in much estimation; for though the chief of his concerns with the son of his patron were imperfectly understood, it was yet a well-known fact that, on his quitting Derbyshire, he had left many debts behind him, which Mr.
The word is applied to many a woman who deserves it no otherwise than by netting a purse or covering a screen; but I am very far from agreeing with you in your estimation of ladies in general.
Perhaps not the less so from feeling a doubt of my positive happiness had my fair cousin honoured me with her hand; for I have often observed, that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our estimation.
This is the estimation in which you hold me!
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