Word Finder - opinion

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A subjective belief, judgment or perspective that a person has formed about a topic, issue, person or thing.

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Every man is a fool in some man's opinion.

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The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation.

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Favorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem.

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Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness.

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The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a doctor, or other party officially called upon to consider and decide upon a matter or point submitted.

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(European Union law) a judicial opinion delivered by an Advocate General to the European Court of Justice where he or she proposes a legal solution to the cases for which the court is responsible

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To have or express as an opinion.

You always did have a high opinion of yourself.

My opinion hasn't changed.

Then let me express a personal opinion as well.

I value your friendship and wish you to have as good an opinion of me.

What we should not try to do, in my opinion, is give them human traits.

In my opinion they are all criminals.

You're the second person to ask me for my opinion on something.

Each of them expresses his opinion as to how and where to haul it.

Prince Vasili expressed his opinion more openly.

She'd never had an opinion of bunk beds until this moment.

However, if it were stigmatized, and public opinion dramatically and pervasively changed, that would force policy change.

And she had rubbed her morals in his face again – only this time she had used other people's opinion as a hammer to drive her morals home.

Contrary to your opinion, I do respect your judgment.

Boris, speaking with deliberation, told them in pure, correct French many interesting details about the armies and the court, carefully abstaining from expressing an opinion of his own about the facts he was recounting.

In 1 457 King Ladislas died suddenly, and public opinion from an early period accused Podébrad of having poisoned him.

He was anxiously sensitive about the opinion of others, eager for their sympathy and regard, and, in general, impressionable to their influence.

A man who simply wished to retain his lucrative post would today agree with Pfuel, tomorrow with his opponent, and the day after, merely to avoid responsibility or to please the Emperor, would declare that he had no opinion at all on the matter.

But the universal historian Gervinus, refuting this opinion of the specialist historian, tries to prove that the campaign of 1813 and the restoration of the Bourbons were due to other things beside Alexander's will--such as the activity of Stein, Metternich, Madame de Stael, Talleyrand, Fichte, Chateaubriand, and others.

The general opinion was that Pierre was under his wife's thumb, which was really true.

By comparison with Florus, Albinus was, in the opinion of Josephus, a benefactor.

If you want my opinion, I'd have to say, look to the wife.

Of a fourth opinion the most conspicuous representative was the Tsarevich, who could not forget his disillusionment at Austerlitz, where he had ridden out at the head of the Guards, in his casque and cavalry uniform as to a review, expecting to crush the French gallantly; but unexpectedly finding himself in the front line had narrowly escaped amid the general confusion.

The Supreme Court so held; its opinion, written by Chief Justice Marshall, being little else than a recital of Webster's argument.

They are in error who hold the opinion that the negligence and bad husbandry of the former owner is good for his successor.

He refused to ratify his resignation; and when Clavering attempted to seize on the governor-generalship, he judiciously obtained an opinion from the judges of the supreme court in his favour.

In Anglo-Saxon England in the 7th and 8th centuries it seems certain that each of the larger kingdoms, Kent, Wessex, Mercia and Northumbria, had its separate witan, or council, but there is a difference of opinion as to whether this was identical with, or distinct from, the folkmoot, in which, theoretically at least, all freemen had the right to appear.

It was characteristic of the closeness with which he watched current events, and of his zeal in the cause of "lucidity," that when the Reader, an organ of science and unpartisan opinion, fell into difficulties in 1865 Mill joined with some distinguished men of science and letters in an effort to keep it afloat.

The collected works of Hrabanus himself contain nothing new, but in some glosses on Aristotle and Porphyry, first exhumed by Cousin, there are several noteworthy expressions of opinion in a Nominalistic sense.

Besides its connexion with the speculations of Anselm, the doctrine of Roscellinus was also of decisive influence within the schools in crystallizing the opposite opinion.

In this list are included of course all shades of opinion, from extreme Nominalism to extreme Realism.

Thus these men, although in words they seem opposed, yet held in reality the same opinion."

And it is significant of this that the ablest and most cultured representative of the second half of the century was rather an of historian of opinion than himself a philosopher or a John Salisbury.

Washington seems never to have forgiven Monroe for this, though Monroe's opinion of Washington and Jay underwent a change in his later years.

It was the general opinion abroad that the Magyars would either relapse into heathendom, or become the vassals of the Holy Roman Empire, and this opinion was reflected in the increasingly hostile attitude of the popes towards the Arpad kings.

On the 7th the Hungarian diet formally refused to acknowledge the title of the new king, " as without the knowledge and consent of the diet no one could sit on the Hungarian throne," and called the nation to arms. Constitutionally, in the Magyar opinion, Ferdinand was still king of Hungary, and this gave to the revolt an excuse of legality.

That this condition of things could not be allowed to continue was, indeed, recognized by all parties; the fundamental difference of opinion was as to the method by which it was to be ended.

This proposal was at once recognized by public opinion - to use the language of the Journal des Debats (May 21, 1909) - as " an instrument of domination " rather than as an attempt to carry out the spirit of the compact under which the Coalition goyernment had been summoned to power.

Public opinion was much excited by this trial.

As to the divine origin of Episcopacy and, consequently, of its universal obligation in the Christian Church, Anglican opinion has been, and still is, considerably divided.'

The Council's occasional outbursts against Italy only rendered Baron Sonnino still more intractable, and irritated Italian public opinion.

There are, and probably always will be, differences of opinion as to the exact way in which the various kinds of animals may be divided into groups and those groups arranged - in such an order as will best exhibit their probable genetic relationships.

Mendel's observations constitute an ingenious attempt to throw light on the matter, and in the opinion of some biologists have led to the discovery of an important principle.

Darwin himself, influenced by the consideration of certain classes of facts which seem to favour the Iamarckian hypothesis, was of the opinion that acquired characters are in some cases transmitted.

Nevertheless, the general opinion has been that the Scyths were Iranian.

Both Cicero and Sallust express a high opinion of Bestia's abilities, but his love of money demoralized him.

The British government was also of opinion that the time was near for the setting up of such institutions, and the pending grant of a constitution to the Transvaal was announced in parliament in July 1904.

That which I say is opinion like unto truth....

Thirdly, when Xenophanes himself says that theories about gods and about things are not knowledge, that his own utterances are not verities but verisimilitudes, and that, so far from learning things by revelation, man must laboriously seek a better opinion, he plainly renounces the "disinterested pursuit of truth."

He perceived that opinion was seriously divided in the Established Church, and thought that a vigorous policy would soon prove effective.

There is considerable difference of opinion as to the chronology of the succeeding beds, and the boundary between the Cretaceous and Tertiary systems is drawn at various horizons by different observers.