The phrase "a particular esteem" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific level of respect or admiration that one holds for someone or something.
Example: "She held him in a particular esteem for his dedication to the community."
Alternatives: "a special regard" or "a distinct respect".
In 1953, in a radio interview, he named Augustus Egg (1816 63) as a painter for whom he had particular esteem.
The birds, we are led to believe, were held in particular esteem by the Merja, a Finno-Ugric group that once inhabited the Volga region, whose language has long disappeared but whose beliefs and rituals persist in those of Merjan stock amid the ethnic Slavs who now dominate the region.
She holds the combat photographers in particular esteem.
This has generated several explanatory legends that revolve around the Jews, who hold Michael in particular esteem as "the lord of Israel".
Williams makes a point of his very ordinariness on the first page – Stoner was "held in no particular esteem when he was alive", and "few students remembered him with any sharpness".
Trapped in a marriage devoid of affection and distanced both physically and socially from his ageing, working class parents, Bill Stoner, an archetypal introvert, is stoical, unambitious and inconspicuous, almost painfully shy, "held in no particular esteem" by and with few, if any, close friends.
Stoner's colleagues, who held him in no particular esteem when he was alive, speak of him rarely now; to the older ones, his name is a reminder of the end that awaits them all, and to the younger ones it is merely a sound which evokes no sense of the past and no identity with which they can associate themselves or their careers.
10 Authors highlighted an acute need for HIV prevention services, with a particular focus on building self-esteem and sexual negotiation skills among young women.
Potential students will be attracted to joining a particular community, held in a popular esteem they would be proud to be associated with.
He continued: "They are just young men in desperate need of self-esteem who do not have a particular mission in life, who feel that they are losers and this thing makes them feel strong – like winners".
