All 8 Uses
deemed
in
Beowulf - (translated by: Gummere)
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- To that mighty-one come we on mickle errand, to the lord of the Danes; nor deem I right that aught be hidden.†
deem = believe or judge
- Spake then his Vaunt the valiant man, Beowulf Geat, ere the bed be sought: —"Of force in fight no feebler I count me, in grim war-deeds, than Grendel deems him.†
deems = believes or judges
- Let wisest God, sacred Lord, on which side soever doom decree as he deemeth right.†
deemeth = believes or judgesstandard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She deemeth" in older English, today we say "She deems."
- XII NOT in any wise would the earls'—defence {12a} suffer that slaughterous stranger to live, useless deeming his days and years to men on earth.†
*deeming = believing or judging
- For gracious I deem my Hrothulf, {17b} willing to hold and rule nobly our youths, if thou yield up first, prince of Scyldings, thy part in the world.†
deem = believe or judge
- Slack and shiftless the strong men deemed him, profitless prince; but payment came, to the warrior honored, for all his woes.†
deemed = believed or judged
- —Shame he reckoned it, sharer-of-rings, to follow the flyer-afar with a host, a broad-flung band; nor the battle feared he, nor deemed he dreadful the dragon's warring, its vigor and valor: ventures desperate he had passed a-plenty, and perils of war, contest-crash, since, conqueror proud, Hrothgar's hall he had wholly purged, and in grapple had killed the kin of Grendel, loathsome breed!†
- Such is the feud, the foeman's rage, death-hate of men: so I deem it sure that the Swedish folk will seek us home for this fall of their friends, the fighting-Scylfings, when once they learn that our warrior leader lifeless lies, who land and hoard ever defended from all his foes, furthered his folk's weal, finished his course a hardy hero.†
deem = believe or judge
Definitions:
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(1)
(deemed) believed or judged
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)