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opinion
- /əˈpɪn.jən/
Rhymes with -ɪnjən
Where it comes from
From English opine + -ion, from Middle English opinion, opinioun, from Anglo-Norman and Middle French opinion, from Latin opīniō, from opīnor (“to opine”). Displaced native Old English wēna.
noun opinions
- A belief, judgment or perspective that a person has formed, either through objective or subjective reasoning, about a topic, issue, person or thing. I would like to know your opinions on the new filing system.
- The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation. I haue bought / Golden Opinions from all ſorts of people, […]
- Favorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem. Thou haſt redeemed thy loſt opinion, […]
- Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness. […] your reaſons at Dinner haue been ſharpe & ſententious: pleaſant without ſcurillitie, wittie without affection, audatious without impudencie, learned without opinion, and ſtrange without hereſie: […]
- The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a doctor, or other party officially called upon to consider and decide upon a matter or point submitted.
- A judicial opinion delivered by an Advocate General to the European Court of Justice where he or she proposes a legal solution to the cases for which the court is responsible.
verb opinions · opinioning · opinioned
- To have or express as an opinion. Philoſophers that opinioned the vvorlds deſtruction by fire, did never dreame of annihilation, vvhich is beyond the povver of ſublunary cauſes; for the laſt and proper action of that element [fire] is but vitrification, or a reduction of a body into Glaſſe, and therefore ſome of our Chymicks factiou
