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plural steems
(obsolete) A gleam of light; a flame.
(obsolete) Value.
third-person singular simple present steems, present participle steeming, simple past and past participle steemed
(obsolete) To value, esteem. quotations
His life he steemed dearer than his friend […].
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie