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Definition
rough calculation or judgment
- He had passed his life in estimating people (it was part of the medical trade), and in nineteen cases out of twenty he was right.Chapter 13 (7% in)
- This image could not fail to recommend itself to Morris Townsend, and he continued to give proof of the high estimation in which he held her.Chapter 20 (59% in)
- This striking argument gave the Doctor a sudden sense of having underestimated his daughter; it seemed even more than worthy of a young woman who had revealed the quality of unaggressive obstinacy.Chapter 22 (95% in)
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