Crossword clues for demur
demur
- Last European quits modest protest
- Raise objections
- Disagree that Rod had a hand in punching doctor
- Voice an objection (to)
- Voice a formal objection
- Refuse to agree
- To object
- Raise an objection
- Beg to differ
- Refuse to go along with
- Formal objection, in court
- Weakly object
- Take exception (to)
- Offer objections
- Object gently
- Make bones about something
- Make an objection
- Hesitate due to doubt
- Enter an objection
- Be objective?
- Object (to)
- Beg off
- Express doubts
- Take exception to something
- Be reluctant
- Voice opposition
- Show reluctance
- Gently protest
- (law) a formal objection to an opponent's pleadings
- Protest gently
- Balk at
- Have scruples
- Coin another term for school with no restrictions
- Almost reserved object
- Odd newsman raised objection
- Object's mostly unassuming...
- Object when strange journalist turns up
- Object having bird in drive
- Object bird deposited in drive
- Wayward emu regularly hiding object
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Demur \De*mur"\, v. t.
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To suspend judgment concerning; to doubt of or hesitate about. [Obs.]
The latter I demur, for in their looks Much reason, and in their actions, oft appears.
--Milton. -
To cause delay to; to put off. [Obs.]
He demands a fee, And then demurs me with a vain delay.
--Quarles.
Demur \De*mur"\, n. [OF. demor, demore, stay, delay. See Demur, v. i.] 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.''
--Pope.
Demur \De*mur"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Demurred; p. pr. & vb. n. Demurring.] [OF. demurer, demorer, demourer, to linger, stay, F. demeurer, fr. L. demorari; de- + morari to delay, tarry, stay, mora delay; prob. originally, time for thinking, reflection, and akin to memor mindful. See Memory.]
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To linger; to stay; to tarry. [Obs.]
Yet durst not demur nor abide upon the camp.
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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.
Upon this rub, the English embassadors thought fit to demur.
--Hayward. To scruple or object; to take exception; as, I demur to that statement.
(Law) To interpose a demurrer. See Demurrer, 2.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, "to linger, tarry, delay," from Old French demorer "delay, retard," from Latin demorari "to linger, loiter, tarry," from de- (see de-) + morari "to delay," from mora "a pause, delay" (see moratorium). Main modern sense of "raise objections" is first attested 1630s. Related: Demurred; demurring.
Wiktionary
n. Stop; pause; hesitation as to proceeding; suspense of decision or action; scruple. vb. 1 (context intransitive obsolete English) To linger; to stay; to tarry 2 (context intransitive English) 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. 3 (context intransitive English) To scruple or object; to take exception; to oppose; to balk 4 (context intransitive legal English) To interpose a demurrer. 5 (context transitive obsolete English) To suspend judgment concerning; to doubt of or hesitate about 6 (context transitive obsolete English) To cause delay to; to put off
WordNet
Usage examples of "demur".
She made no demur when dear Claribel decided that she would have to go back to Meadow Road by an earlier train than usual.
Rabinall had wanted to buy a Whitey Lockman from him, but Curran had demurred at the last moment, stubbornly refusing to come down a final notch in price.
Somehow Hala had never seemed like the demur little village girl that obeyed her elders, he wondered if this older version surprised them now, or if they resented her for it.
The others might have demurred at leaving Prague so soon in other circumstances, but with a heaven-sent guide added to the party, gratis, it seemed much the most practical and economic solution to run right through, as Tossa had urged, spend as long as possible in the east, and then make then-way back, without a guide, over a road already travelled once.
The demurest of fuliginous intriguers argued that Brail stone was but doing the spiriting required of him, and would have to pay the penalty unrewarded, let him Italianize as much as he pleased.
The Dwarf Demurs, the Rascal Impudently Recounting a Past Beating For This Selfsame Deed.
Tab, already legendary even in a hard-drinking port like this, that might finance a small War, chargeable to the Royal Society of course, and beyond them, should they demur above a sum Mr.
The ordinary lover of Shakespeare would equally demur to my placing his popular catchpenny plays, of which As You Like It is an avowed type, below true Shakespearean plays like Measure for Measure.
Chorl Valeur, who owed his deprived son every possible reparation, just as surely as Crown and Exalted owed reparation to the deprived commons Chorl now demurred and hesitated, reluctant to lend his magical aid, stingy as he had always been.
And the forest's always cooler' Larak agreed, though he demurred when she wanted him to bring a shirt, too.
He told her to find what she fancied and he'd have the same but the others demurred, gesturing toward the low table where the remains of a meal could be seen.
He never quite accepted Tasha, but I demurred when she offered to resign.
Tom demurred, and went to the bookcase at the far end of the room, which reached from floor to ceiling.
However, these strange powers had depended upon her maidenhead remaining un pierced She had warned Bazo of this, pleading with him to strip her of her virginity and rid her of these terrible powers, but he had demurred, bound by law and custom, until it had been too late and the wizards had come down from the hills to claim her.
Others hang off - when coming to the post Is spurring time, and then he’ll spare the most: While some demurring, wait, and find at last The bidding languish, and the market past.