All 10 Uses
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Year of Wonders
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- There are some who deem this mountainside bleak country, and I can see how it might seem so: the land all chewed up by the miners, their stowes like scaffolds upon the moors, and their bings like weedy molehills interrupting the pale mauve tide of the heather.†
Chpt 4deem = believe or judge
- Mr. Mompellion, too, was there, directing Mr. Milne, and when he deemed the holes sufficiently deep he filled each with vinegar and placed the coins inside.†
Chpt 7 *deemed = believed or judged
- She told me then that the poppy she used had been steeping six weeks in grog, and Sam, who did not like to drink but a little ale, winced as he swilled down the five spoonfuls she deemed he needed.†
Chpt 9
- We walked together to the Unwins' house, and as we went, the rector asked many questions regarding my work of the previous day, whom I had visited and how they fared, what tonics I had administered and which I deemed most useful.†
Chpt 11
- The rector had deemed that they should be burned, prayerfully and with respect, and had gone himself to see to it.†
Chpt 13
- At the rectory, there was discussion of bringing a party of men to break the door and bring the child's body out, but the rector decided against doing so, for the risk to the men from Aphra in her distemper and the corpse in its decay he deemed too great.†
Chpt 13
- He had never yet worn such a thing—coming as he did into the pulpit vacated by a Puritan, he had chosen to bear himself plainly so as not to inflame passions on matters that he deemed insignificant to the manner of our worship.†
Chpt 14
- Because lust caused the sin, I deemed that she should atone by living some part of her life with her lusts unrequited.†
Chpt 15
- I told Elizabeth Bradford to ride in haste to my cottage and instructed her where she might find a flask of nettle tonic, which I deemed might strengthen her mother.†
Chpt 15
- I would she have what you deem her to need, but you must go yourself, for I fear to leave my mother lest she pass away while I am gone.†
Chpt 15deem = believe or judge
Definitions:
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(1)
(deemed) believed or judged
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)