Deem vs Delusion - What's the difference?
deem | delusion |
(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.
A false belief that is resistant to confrontation with actual facts.
The state of being deluded or misled.
That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief.
* {{quote-book
, year=1960
, author=William L. Shirer
, title=The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
, page=835
, publisher=Simon & Schuster
, location=New York
, isbn=0-671-72869-5
, id=LCCN 81101072
, passage=Hess, always a muddled man though not so doltish as Rosenberg, flew on his own to Britain under the delusion that he could arrange a peace settlement.}}
(Webster 1913)
As a verb deem
is .As a noun delusion is
a false belief that is resistant to confrontation with actual facts.deem
English
Verb
(en verb)- And deemest thou as those who pore, / With aged eyes, short way before?
- She deemed his efforts insufficient.