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account of en · VERB

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1. (archaic, qualifier:now usually passive voice, transitive) To esteem; to prize; to value.
   • Bard, Hoskuld’s son, had also been a seafarer, and was well accounted of wherever he went, for he was the best of brave men and true, and a man of moderation in all things. 1964 [13th c.], Muriel Press, transl., edited by Peter Foote, The Laxdale Saga, pages 78–9:
   • Never was preaching more accounted of than in the sixteenth century. 1863, Rev. Canon Robinson, “Sermons and Preaching”, in Macmillan's Magazine, volume VII, page 410:
   • Valentine. I mean that her beauty is exquisite, but her favour infinite. / Speed. That's because the one is painted, and the other out of all count. / Valentine. How painted? and how out of count? / Speed. Marry, sir, so painted, to make her fair, that no man counts of her beauty. / Valentine. How esteem'st thou me? I account of her beauty. / Speed. You never saw her since she was deformed? 1591, William Shakespeare, edited by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, published 1921, page 17:

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