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Deemster vs Doomster - What's the difference?

deemster | doomster |

As nouns the difference between deemster and doomster

is that deemster is a judge; one who pronounces sentence or doom while doomster is someone who predicts doom.

deemster

English

(wikipedia deemster)

Alternative forms

* (obsolete) *

Noun

(en noun)
  • A judge; one who pronounces sentence or doom.
  • A judge on the Isle of Man.

    • Related terms

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    doomster

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who predicts doom
  • *{{quote-news, 1988, January 29, Dorothy Samachson, Dance Notes: remembering Antony Tudor, conscience of the ABT, Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=Chase and Pleasant may have been innocents, but they were smarter than the doomsters who predicted that Chase would lose her fortune, for their New York company, the Ballet Theatre (later the American Ballet Theatre), got off to a phenomenally successful start. }}
  • (Scotland, archaic) A judge; a deemster.

    • Synonyms

    *doomsayer *pessimist