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deem

verb
/diːm/UK/dim/US

Etymology

From Middle English dēmen (“to judge; to criticize, condemn; to impose a penalty on, sentence; to direct, order; to believe, think, deem”), from Old English dēman (“to decide, decree, deem”), from Proto-West Germanic *dōmijan, from Proto-Germanic *dōmijaną (“to judge, think”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to set, put”). The word is cognate with Danish and Norwegian Bokmål dømme (“to judge”), Dutch doemen (“to condemn, foredoom”), North Frisian dema (“to judge, recognise”), Norwegian Nynorsk døma (“to judge”), Swedish döma (“to judge, sentence, condemn”), Finnish tuomita (“to judge”). It is also related to doom.

  1. derived from *dʰeh₁-✻
  2. inherited from *dōmijaną✻
  3. inherited from *dōmijan✻
  4. inherited from dēman
  5. inherited from demen

Definitions

  1. To hold in belief or estimation

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

    • She deemed his efforts insufficient.
    • To this sect belong also the Skakounui, or Jumpers. […] They refuse to take an oath, and will not bear arms, deeming it sinful to shed human blood.

  2. To think, judge, or have or hold as an opinion

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

  3. To judge, to pass judgment on

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

  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. To adjudge, to decree.

    2. To dispense (justice)

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

    3. An opinion, a judgment, a surmise.

    4. A surname.

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Derived

addeem, bedeem, deemer, deemster, dempster, fordeem, foredeem, misdeem

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at deem. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at deem. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at deem

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA