Inveigh vs Demur - What's the difference?
inveigh | demur |
* 1860 , (William Cullen Bryant), letter, 14 Sep 1860:
* 1989 , (Jack Vance), Madouc :
* 1999 , (Will Hutton), The Guardian , 26 Sep 1999:
* 2011 , Elizabeth Drew, "What were they thinking?", New York Review of Books , 18 Aug 2011:
(obsolete) To draw in or away; to entice, inveigle.
* c. 1680 , (Samuel Butler), Genuine Remains :
(obsolete) To linger; to stay; to tarry
* Nicols
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
To scruple or object; to take exception; to oppose; to balk
(legal) To interpose a demurrer.
(obsolete) To suspend judgment concerning; to doubt of or hesitate about
(obsolete) To cause delay to; to put off
* Quarles
Stop; pause; hesitation as to proceeding; suspense of decision or action; scruple.
* 2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 132:
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As verbs the difference between inveigh and demur
is that inveigh is while demur is (obsolete) to linger; to stay; to tarry.As a noun demur is
stop; pause; hesitation as to proceeding; suspense of decision or action; scruple.inveigh
English
Verb
(en verb)- I saw Mr. Cairns yesterday. He inveighed at great length at what he called Mr. Willis's neglect of his children, saying he had just discovered that they got no whortleberries and no fish, and that he was just beginning to send them those things.
- Noblemen loyal to King Milo inveighed upon him, until at last he sent off dispatches to King Audry and King Aillas, alerting them to the peculiar rash of forays, raids and provocations current along the Lyonesse border.
- Only last week, three aggressively written pamphlets crossed my desk inveighing against the euro.
- After the President, in a press conference in late June, inveighed against tax breaks for corporate jets, the industry quickly insisted that such a change would cost jobs.
- He is a Spirit, that inveighs away a Man from himself, undertakes great Matters for him, and after fells him for a Slave.
Derived terms
* inveigher * inveighingdemur
English
Verb
(demurr)- Yet durst not demur nor abide upon the camp.
- Upon this rub, the English embassadors thought fit to demur .
- I demur to that statement.
- The personnel demurred at the management's new scheme.
- The latter I demur , for in their looks / Much reason, and in their actions, oft appears. -
- He demands a fee, / And then demurs me with a vain delay.
Noun
(en noun)- All my demurs but double his attacks; At last he whispers, ``Do; and we go snacks.'' -
- Most geologists today would accept such evidence without demur , but it was still ‘fringe’ science when du Toit was publishing.