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What is the difference between regard and deem?

regard | deem |

Deem is a synonym of regard.



In transitive obsolete terms the difference between regard and deem

is that regard is to set store by (something), to hold (someone) in esteem; to consider to have value, to respect while deem is to dispense (justice); administer (law).

In transitive terms the difference between regard and deem

is that regard is to have to do with, to concern while deem is to hold in belief or estimation; adjudge as a conclusion; regard as being; evaluate according to one's beliefs; account.

regard

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Alternative forms

* (all obsolete)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) reguard, reguarde, from early (etyl) regard, from , from (etyl) reguarder. Attested in Middle English starting around the mid 14th century. Compare guard'', ''reward .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A steady look, a gaze.
  • * 1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 750:
  • He bathed in the memory of her blondness, of her warm blue regard , and the sentiment permeated his sensibility with tenderness made the more rich because its object was someone long since dead.
  • One's concern for another; esteem.
  • * 1842 , Treuttel and Würtz, The Foreign Quarterly Review , page 144:
  • This attempt will be made with every regard to the difficulty of the undertaking[...].
  • * 1903 , Kentucky Mines and Minerals Dept, Annual Report , page 186:
  • We are spending a lot of money trying to put this mine in shape; we are anxious to comply with the wishes of your office in every regard [...].
  • * 1989 , Leonard W. Poon, David C. Rubin, Barbara A. Wilson, Everyday Cognition in Adulthood and Late Life , Cambridge University Press, page 399:
  • These problems were not traditional problems with realistic stimuli, but rather were realistic in every regard .
    Derived terms
    * disregard * in regard * regardable

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) regarder, from (etyl) reguarder. First attested in late Middle English, circa the early 15th century.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To set store by (something), to hold (someone) in esteem; to consider to have value, to respect.
  • * 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Luke XVIII:
  • There was a Judge in a certaine cite, which feared not god nether regarded man.
  • To look at; to observe.
  • She regarded us warily.
  • To consider, look upon (something) in a given way etc.
  • I always regarded tabloid journalism as a social evil.
    He regards honesty as a duty.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Your niece regards me with an eye of favour.
  • * Macaulay
  • His associates seem to have regarded him with kindness.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=May 5 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.}}
  • (archaic) To take notice of, pay attention to.
  • * Shakespeare
  • If much you note him, / You offend him; feed, and regard him not.
  • To face toward.
  • * Sandys
  • It is a peninsula, which regardeth the main land.
  • * John Evelyn
  • that exceedingly beautiful seat of my Lord Pembroke, on the ascent of a hill, flanked with wood, and regarding the river
  • To have to do with, to concern.
  • That argument does not regard the question.
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  • Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * regarder * regardless * self-regarding

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    deem

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (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
  • And deemest thou as those who pore, / With aged eyes, short way before?
  • To hold in belief or estimation; adjudge as a conclusion; regard as being; evaluate according to one's beliefs; account.
  • She deemed his efforts insufficient.
  • To have or hold as a (personal) opinion; judge; think.
  • Synonyms

    * judge * consider; see also

    Derived terms

    * * * * * *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An opinion; judgement; surmise.
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