All 19 Uses
deemed
in
The Scarlet Letter
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- No aim that I have ever cherished would they recognise as laudable; no success of mine—if my life, beyond its domestic scope, had ever been brightened by success—would they deem otherwise than worthless, if not positively disgraceful.†
p. 11.9deem = believe or judge
- If the imaginative faculty refused to act at such an hour, it might well be deemed a hopeless case.†
p. 34.7deemed = believed or judged
- There dwelt, there trode, the feet of one with whom she deemed herself connected in a union that, unrecognised on earth, would bring them together before the bar of final judgment, and make that their marriage-altar, for a joint futurity of endless retribution.†
p. 75.3
- Deep ruffs, painfully wrought bands, and gorgeously embroidered gloves, were all deemed necessary to the official state of men assuming the reins of power, and were readily allowed to individuals dignified by rank or wealth, even while sumptuary laws forbade these and similar extravagances to the plebeian order.†
p. 76.9
- For, if we deem it otherwise, do we not thereby say that the Heavenly Father, the creator of all flesh, hath lightly recognised a deed of sin, and made of no account the distinction between unhallowed lust and holy love?†
p. 105.8deem = believe or judge
- He deemed it essential, it would seem, to know the man, before attempting to do him good.
p. 114.7 *deemed = believed
- "This man," said he, at one such moment, to himself, "pure as they deem him—all spiritual as he seems—hath inherited a strong animal nature from his father or his mother.†
p. 119.9deem = believe or judge
- —"But, now, I would ask of my well-skilled physician, whether, in good sooth, he deems me to have profited by his kindly care of this weak frame of mine?"†
p. 123.3deems = believes or judges
- "There goes a woman," resumed Roger Chillingworth, after a pause, "who, be her demerits what they may, hath none of that mystery of hidden sinfulness which you deem so grievous to be borne.†
p. 124.8deem = believe or judge
- Looking daily at you, my good sir, and watching the tokens of your aspect now for months gone by, I should deem you a man sore sick, it may be, yet not so sick but that an instructed and watchful physician might well hope to cure you.†
p. 125.4
- They deemed the young clergyman a miracle of holiness.†
p. 132.4deemed = believed or judged
- A scroll so wide might not be deemed too expensive for Providence to write a people's doom upon.†
p. 143.7
- Was I not, though you might deem me cold, nevertheless a man thoughtful for others, craving little for himself—kind, true, just and of constant, if not warm affections?†
p. 159.5deem = believe or judge
- She deemed it her crime most to be repented of, that she had ever endured and reciprocated the lukewarm grasp of his hand, and had suffered the smile of her lips and eyes to mingle and melt into his own.†
p. 163.5deemed = believed or judged
- He looked haggard and feeble, and betrayed a nerveless despondency in his air, which had never so remarkably characterized him in his walks about the settlement, nor in any other situation where he deemed himself liable to notice.†
p. 174.9
- Canst thou deem it, Hester, a consolation that I must stand up in my pulpit, and meet so many eyes turned upward to my face, as if the light of heaven were beaming from it!†
p. 178.3deem = believe or judge
- I deem it not likely that he will betray the secret.†
p. 182.8
- Into this festal season of the year—as it already was, and continued to be during the greater part of two centuries—the Puritans compressed whatever mirth and public joy they deemed allowable to human infirmity; thereby so far dispelling the customary cloud, that, for the space of a single holiday, they appeared scarcely more grave than most other communities at a period of general affliction.†
p. 214.8deemed = believed or judged
- —ye, that have deemed me holy!†
p. 237.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(deemed) believed or judged
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)