steem
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- Rhymes: -iːm
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steem (plural steems)
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steem (plural steems)
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steem (third-person singular simple present steems, present participle steeming, simple past and past participle steemed)
- (obsolete) To value, esteem. [16th–17th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- His life he steemed dearer than his friend […].