All 4 Uses of
deemed
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- To Boldwood women had been remote phenomena rather than necessary complements—comets of such uncertain aspect, movement, and permanence, that whether their orbits were as geometrical, unchangeable, and as subject to laws as his own, or as absolutely erratic as they superficially appeared, he had not deemed it his duty to consider.†
Chpt 16-18
- Silent and alone, he had remained in moody meditation on woman's ways, deeming as essentials of the whole sex the accidents of the single one of their number he had ever closely beheld.†
Chpt 34-36 *
- Many bathers had there prayed for a dry death from time to time, and, like Gonzalo also, had been unanswered; and Troy began to deem it possible that he might be added to their number.†
Chpt 46-48
- The distance was not more than a quarter of a mile, and these two sensible persons deemed it unnecessary to drive.†
Chpt 55-57
Definition:
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(deemed) believed or judged