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Opinion   /əpˈɪnjən/   Listen
noun
Opinion  n.  
1.
That which is opined; a notion or conviction founded on probable evidence; belief stronger than impression, less strong than positive knowledge; settled judgment in regard to any point of knowledge or action. "Opinion is when the assent of the understanding is so far gained by evidence of probability, that it rather inclines to one persuasion than to another, yet not without a mixture of incertainty or doubting." "I can not put off my opinion so easily."
2.
The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation. "I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people." "Friendship... gives a man a peculiar right and claim to the good opinion of his friend." "However, I have no opinion of those things."
3.
Favorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem. (Obs.) "Thou hast redeemed thy lost opinion." "This gained Agricola much opinion, who... had made such early progress into laborious... enterprises."
4.
Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness. (Obs.)
5.
(Law.) The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a counselor, or other party officially called upon to consider and decide upon a matter or point submitted.
To be of opinion, to think; to judge.
To hold opinion with, to agree with. (Obs.)
Synonyms: Sentiment; notion; persuasion; idea; view; estimation. See Sentiment.



verb
Opinion  v. t.  To opine. (Obs.)






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"Opinion" Quotes from Famous Books



... sometimes affects the most serious events of history. This, at any rate, was the opinion of the town of Genoa, where, to some women, the extreme reserve, the melancholy of the French Consul could be explained only by the word passion. It may be remarked, in passing, that women never complain of being the victims ...
— Honorine • Honore de Balzac

... foolish as to fall in love with anybody," said Ursula, with dignity. "Indeed, Janey, you ought to have much more respect for papa. I wish you could be sent to school and learn more sense. You give your opinion as if you were—twenty—more than that. I am sure I never should have ventured to say such things when I ...
— Phoebe, Junior • Mrs [Margaret] Oliphant

... other across the diameter of the circle at all, it was as much as was possible. Under the circumstances, it struck me our wisest way was to keep steadily on our course, like honest people. Marble was of the same opinion, and to say the truth, there was little choice in the matter, the ship being so completely surrounded. The worst feature of the case was our position, which would be certain to draw all the cruisers to the centre, and ...
— Miles Wallingford - Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" • James Fenimore Cooper

... voluntarism with interposed concessions to phenomenalism or as phenomenalism with the well-known concessions to voluntarism at the deciding points. Further, those who claim that psychology must be phenomenalistic—and that is the opinion of the present writer—do not on that account hold that the propositions of voluntarism are wrong. On the contrary: voluntarism, we say, is right in every respect except in believing itself to be psychology. Voluntarism, we say, is the interpretative account of the real life, of immediate ...
— Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 • Various

... illuminations, and walk about, with intervals devoted to refreshments, for several hours more. Beyond sat a working-man, overtaken with liquor, who railed vehemently at the Jubilee, and in no measured terms gave his opinion of our Sovereign Lady; the whole thing was a 'lay,' an occasion for filling the Royal pocket, and it had succeeded to the tune of something like half a million of money, wheedled, most of it, from the imbecile poor. 'Shut up!' roared a loyalist, ...
— In the Year of Jubilee • George Gissing


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