esteem
It is hard to imagine why anyone would hold such a person in esteem.
He was a skilled operative who was held in esteem by everyone he worked with.
There was a gap between her ambitions and the esteem in which she was held by her record company.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Showing respect and admiration
admiration
admire
admiring
admiringly
approving
approvingly
forelock
freedom
fulsome
fulsomely
fulsomeness
glorify
grovelling
pay your respectsidiom
philogynist
philogyny
put someone on a pedestalidiom
regild
respectfully
worshipful