Both Uses
opine
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Billy Budd
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- But shrewd ones may opine that it was hardly possible for Billy to refrain from going up to the afterguardsman and bluntly demanding to know his purpose in the initial interview, so abruptly closed in the fore-chains.†
Chpt 17opine = to express one's opinion
- The perplexity he evinced proceeded less from aught touching the man informed against—as Claggart doubtless opined—than from considerations how best to act in regard to the informer.†
Chpt 18 *opined = expressed an opinion
Definitions:
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(1)
(opine) to express one's opinion
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)