"account of" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: accounts of [present, singular, third-person], accounting of [participle, present], accounted of [participle, past], accounted of [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} account of (third-person singular simple present accounts of, present participle accounting of, simple past and past participle accounted of)
  1. (transitive, archaic, now usually passive voice) To esteem; to prize; to value. Tags: archaic, transitive
    Sense id: en-account_of-en-verb-WksDVYpJ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (of)

Inflected forms

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    },
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      "form": "accounting of",
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    },
    {
      "form": "accounted of",
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    },
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        {
          "ref": "1591, William Shakespeare, edited by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, published 1921, page 17",
          "text": "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?",
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        {
          "ref": "1863, Rev. Canon Robinson, “Sermons and Preaching”, in Macmillan's Magazine, volume VII, page 410",
          "text": "Never was preaching more accounted of than in the sixteenth century.",
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        {
          "ref": "1964 [13th c.], Muriel Press, transl., edited by Peter Foote, The Laxdale Saga, pages 78–9",
          "text": "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.",
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      "qualifier": "now usually passive voice",
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        "(transitive, archaic, now usually passive voice) To esteem; to prize; to value."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "transitive"
      ]
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      "form": "accounted of",
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          "ref": "1591, William Shakespeare, edited by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, published 1921, page 17",
          "text": "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?",
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        "(transitive, archaic, now usually passive voice) To esteem; to prize; to value."
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