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Deliberate vs Demur - What's the difference?

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Deliberate is a related term of demur.


As verbs the difference between deliberate and demur

is that deliberate is to consider carefully while demur is (obsolete) to linger; to stay; to tarry.

As an adjective deliberate

is done on purpose; intentional.

As a noun demur is

stop; pause; hesitation as to proceeding; suspense of decision or action; scruple.

deliberate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Done on purpose; intentional.
    • Tripping me was deliberate action.
  • Of a person, weighing facts and arguments with a view to a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; circumspect; slow in determining.
    • The jury took eight hours to come to its deliberate verdict.
  • Formed with deliberation; well-advised; carefully considered; not sudden or rash.
    • a deliberate''' opinion; a '''deliberate measure or result
  • * Shakespeare
    • settled visage and deliberate word
  • Not hasty or sudden; slow.
  • * W. Wirt
    • His enunciation was so deliberate .

    Antonyms

    * (intentional) unwitting

    Verb

    (deliberat)
  • To consider carefully.
    • It is now time for the jury to deliberate the guilt of the defendant.

    Related terms

    * deliberation * deliberative

    External links

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    demur

    English

    Verb

    (demurr)
  • (obsolete) To linger; to stay; to tarry
  • * Nicols
    • Yet durst not demur nor abide upon the camp.
  • To delay; to pause; to suspend proceedings or judgment in view of a doubt or difficulty; to hesitate; to put off the determination or conclusion of an affair.
  • * Hayward
    • Upon this rub, the English embassadors thought fit to demur .
  • To scruple or object; to take exception; to oppose; to balk
    • I demur to that statement.
    The personnel demurred at the management's new scheme.
  • (legal) To interpose a demurrer.
  • (obsolete) To suspend judgment concerning; to doubt of or hesitate about
    • The latter I demur , for in their looks / Much reason, and in their actions, oft appears. -
  • (obsolete) To cause delay to; to put off
  • * Quarles
    • He demands a fee, / And then demurs me with a vain delay.

    Related terms

    * demurrage * demurrer

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Stop; pause; hesitation as to proceeding; suspense of decision or action; scruple.
    • All my demurs but double his attacks; At last he whispers, ``Do; and we go snacks.'' -
  • * 2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 132:
    • Most geologists today would accept such evidence without demur , but it was still ‘fringe’ science when du Toit was publishing.

    Derived terms

    * demureness

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