Meaning of Demur | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An act of objecting or taking exception; a scruple; also, an exception taken or objection to something.
2. An act of continuing; a continuance.
   obsolete
3. An act of lingering or tarrying.
   obsolete
4. An act of remaining or staying; a residence, a stay.
   obsolete
5. A state of having doubts; a hesitation, a pause.
   obsolete
6. Synonym of demurrer (“a motion by a party to a legal action for the immediate or summary judgment of the court on the question of whether, assuming the truth of the matter alleged by the opposite party, it is sufficient in law to sustain the action or defence, and hence whether the party bringing the motion is required to answer or proceed further”).
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“If publique Aſſemblies of Divines cannot agree upon a right vvay, private Conventicles of illeterate men, vvill ſoon finde a vvrong. Bivious demurres breed devious reſolutions. Paſſengers to heaven are in haſte, and vvill vvalk one vvay or other.”

“All my demurrs but double his attacks; / At laſt he vvhiſpers, "Do; and vve go ſnacks."”

“Nicholas was not much disposed to sleep, being in truth too anxious, so after a little demur he accepted the offer, […]”

“Most geologists today would accept such evidence without demur, but it was still 'fringe' science when [Alexander] du Toit was publishing.”

“[G]ood People, living vvithin the Limits of true and lavvful Matrimony, ſhall not by Malice or ill VVill, be ſo long detained and interrupted from their Right, as in times paſt they have been: Neither unjuſt Matrymony ſhall have his unjuſt and inceſtuous demoure and continuance, as by delayes to Rome it is vvont to have.”

“[A]lbeit his Highneſs had cauſe, as the ſame vvrote, to marvel of your long demor, and lack of expedition of one or other of the things committed to your charge; yet did his Highneſs right vvell perſuade unto himſelf the default not to be in you, but in ſome other cauſe, […]”

“VVe ſavv this tovvn only in tranſitu, but it merited a little demurr.”

“The King told me, […] That I ſhould have the Character of Ambaſſador Extraordinary, and the ſame Allovvance I ſhou'd have had in Spain: Upon this Offer I made no Demurr, but immediately accepted it, and ſo my Ambaſſy vvas declar'd in May 1674.”

“[W]ith Rejoinders and Replies, / Long Bills, and Anſvvers, ſtuft vvith Lies, / Demurr, Imparlance, and Eſſoign, / The Parties ne'er could Iſſue join: / For Sixteen Years the Cauſe vvas ſpun, / And then ſtood vvhere it firſt begun.”

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