All 6 Uses of
deemed
in
Emma
- If we were obliged to go out such an evening as this, by any call of duty or business, what a hardship we should deem it;—and here are we, probably with rather thinner clothing than usual, setting forward voluntarily, without excuse, in defiance of the voice of nature, which tells man, in every thing given to his view or his feelings, to stay at home himself, and keep all under shelter that he can;—here are we setting forward to spend five dull hours in another man's house, with…†
Chpt 1.13-14
- It is not that I am without the wish; but you know how impossible my father would deem it that James should put-to for such a purpose.†
Chpt 2.7-8
- Every door was now closed, the passage plan given up, and the first scheme of dancing only in the room they were in resorted to again; and with such good-will on Frank Churchill's part, that the space which a quarter of an hour before had been deemed barely sufficient for five couple, was now endeavoured to be made out quite enough for ten.†
Chpt 2.11-12
- It was precisely what Emma would have wished, had she deemed it possible enough for wishing.†
Chpt 2.15-16 *
- —She was his own Emma, by hand and word, when they returned into the house; and if he could have thought of Frank Churchill then, he might have deemed him a very good sort of fellow.†
Chpt 3.13-14
- If I had followed her judgment, and subdued my spirits to the level of what she deemed proper, I should have escaped the greatest unhappiness I have ever known.†
Chpt 3.13-14
Definition:
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(deemed) believed or judged