account of

English

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.
   • 1591, William Shakespeare, edited by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, published 1921, page 17:

     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?

   • 1863, Rev. Canon Robinson, “Sermons and Preaching”, in Macmillan's Magazine, volume VII, page 410:

     Never was preaching more accounted of than in the sixteenth century.

   • 1964 [13th c.], Muriel Press, transl., edited by Peter Foote, The Laxdale Saga, pages 78–9:

     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.