Deem vs Constitute - What's the difference?
deem | constitute |
(obsolete) To judge; pass judgement on; sentence; doom.
(obsolete) To adjudge; decree.
(obsolete) To dispense (justice); administer (law).
(ambitransitive) To think, judge, or hold as an opinion; decide or believe on consideration; suppose.
* Emerson
To hold in belief or estimation; adjudge as a conclusion; regard as being; evaluate according to one's beliefs; account.
To have or hold as a (personal) opinion; judge; think.
To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.
* Jeremy Taylor
To make up; to compose; to form.
* Johnson
To appoint, depute, or elect to an office; to make and empower.
* William Wordsworth
As verbs the difference between deem and constitute
is that deem is to judge; pass judgement on; sentence; doom while constitute is to cause to stand; to establish; to enact.As nouns the difference between deem and constitute
is that deem is an opinion; judgement; surmise while constitute is an established law.deem
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Verb
(en verb)- And deemest thou as those who pore, / With aged eyes, short way before?
- She deemed his efforts insufficient.
Synonyms
* judge * consider; see alsoDerived terms
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* * * ----constitute
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(Webster 1913)Verb
(constitut)- Laws appointed and constituted by lawful authority.
- Truth and reason constitute that intellectual gold that defies destruction.
- Me didst Thou constitute a priest of thine.