Word Finder - deeming

definition

To judge, to pass judgment on; to doom, to sentence.

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• judge

definition

To adjudge, to decree.

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• judge

definition

To dispense (justice); to administer (law).

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• judge

definition

(ditransitive) To hold in belief or estimation; to adjudge as a conclusion; to regard as being; to evaluate according to one's beliefs; to account.

example

She deemed his efforts insufficient.

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• consider

definition

To think, judge, or have or hold as an opinion; to decide or believe on consideration; to suppose.

Conselheiro, deeming his worst suspicions confirmed, shot and killed his wife and his mother before explanations could be offered.

To avoid the vengeance of the emperor, she fled with him to the court of the sultan of Damascus; but not deeming themselves safe there, they continued their perilous journey through Persia and Turkestan,round the Caspian Sea and across Mount Caucasus, until at length they settled among the Turks on the borders of Trebizond.

Interestingly, Martyn refused Salih 's request for baptism, deeming him as yet unready.

Insurers do not have such specific definitions when deeming a car to be considered a classic.

In Mary's reign (1555) the licences were withdrawn, the queen or her advisers deeming the game an excuse for "unlawful assemblies, conventicles, seditions and conspiracies."

Deeming it wise to suppress his name, he adopted the pseudonym Ursinus, with reference to his protection by Bern.

A rise then came in the wages of agricultural labourers, but this had the unforeseen effect of destroying the union; for the labourers, deeming their object gained, ceased to "agitate."

Espartero, deeming resistance useless, embarked at Cadiz on the 30th of July 1843 for England, and lived quietly apart from politics until 1848, when a royal decree restored to him all his honours and his seat in the senate.

But deeming Charles's further demands inconvenient, he soon found occasion in the renewal of hostilities to suspend the council once more (April 1552).

Meanwhile Acragas, deeming Agathocles and the barbarians alike weakened, proclaimed freedom for the Sicilian cities under her own headship. Many towns, both Greek and Sicel, joined the confederacy.

In 1745 Trenton received a royal charter incorporating it as a borough, but in 1750 the inhabitants voluntarily surrendered this privilege, deeming it "very prejudicial to the interest and trade" of the community.

Not deeming it prudent to initiate the young man into his own system, he took for a textbook the second and third parts of Descartes's Principles, which deal in the main with natural philosophy.

Sir Harry, deeming no other course open to him, proclaimed (February 1848) the country between the Orange and Vaal rivers British territory, under the name of the Orange River Sovereignty.

Newman declined further contributions from him to the British Critic, not deeming it advisable that they should longer "co-operate very closely."

On hearing of the war between England and the United States, Astor's associates, deeming Astoria untenable, sold the property in October 1813 to the North-west Company.

In the troublous times that followed the death of James V., Leith became the stronghold of the Roman Catholic and French party from 1548 to 1560, Mary of Guise, queen regent, not deeming herself secure in Edinburgh.

His one re deeming feature was a love of art; his own cathedral was a veritable Pantheon.

Interestingly, Martyn refused Salih's request for baptism, deeming him as yet unready.