Demur

Definitions: Demur

Demur

Noun

1. (law) a formal objection to an opponent's pleadings.

Verb

1. Take exception to.

2. Enter a demurrer.

Date "demur" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Synonyms: Demur

Synonyms: demurral (n), demurrer (n), except (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Dissent	Verb: dissent, demur; call in question; (doubt); differ in opinion, disagree; say no; refuse assent, refuse to admit; cavil, protest, raise one's voice against, repudiate; contradict; (deny).
Irresolution	Verb: be irresolute; Adjective: hang in suspense, keep in suspense; leave "ad referendum"; think twice about, pause; dawdle; (inactivity); remain neuter; dillydally, hesitate, boggle, hover, dacker, hum and haw, demur, not know one's own mind; debate, balance; dally with, coquet with; will and will not, chaser-balancer; go halfway, compromise, make a compromise; be thrown off one's balance, stagger like a drunken man; be afraid; let "I dare not" wait upon "I would"; falter, waver
	Noun: irresolution, infirmity of purpose, indecision; indetermination, undetermination; unsettlement; uncertainty; demur, suspense; hesitating; Verb:, hesitation, hesitancy; vacillation; changeableness; fluctuation; alternation; (oscillation); caprice.
Unwillingness	Scrupulousness, scrupulosity; qualms of conscience, twinge of conscience; delicacy, demur, scruple, qualm, shrinking, recoil; hesitation; (irresolution); fastidiousness.
	Demur, stick at, scruple, stickle; hang fire, run rusty; recoil, shrink, swerve; hesitate; avoid.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Demur

English words defined with "demur": Demurred, Demurring ♦ To pause upon. (references)

Etymologies containing "demur": Demurrage. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Oh see, now that pisses me off. First of all, since the demur we have more than 400 plaintiffs andlet's be honest, we all know there are more out there. (Erin Brockovich; writing credit: Susannah Grant)
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Author	Quotation
Emily Dickinson	Assent -- and you are sane -- , demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- , and handled with a Chain -- .
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"Demur" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Demur" is used about 56 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	50%	28	65,706
Noun (singular)	44.64%	25	69,787
Lexical Verb (base form)	5.36%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	56	N/A

Expression using "demur": demur at. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "demur"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		nxjerr kundërshtim, ngurroj (boggle, dither, falter, halt, hang, hesitate, linger, pendulate, scruple, vacillate, wabble, waver, wobble), ngurrim (dither, falter, fluctuation, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, reluctance, reserve, shilly shally), kundërshtoj (censure, challenge, combat, condemn, contest, contradict, controvert, counter, cross, deprecate, discountenance, discourage, dispute, flout, fly in the face of, gainsay, impugn, kick, mind, object, oppose, oppugn, protest, react, rebel, rebuke, rebut, recalcitrate, refuse, resist, retort, set one's face against, stick to, stickle, Stonewall, take exception to), kundërshtim (censure, challenge, contradiction, contrast, demurrer, deprecation, dispraise, exception, kick, objection, obtestation, opposition, protest, reaction, rebellion, rebuff, rebuttal, recalcitrance, retort, return, set down, Stonewall, stonewalling). (various references)

Arabic		‏تردد (ambivalence, backwards, balance, be in two minds, boggle, crane, difficulty, dither, fainting, falter, flicker, float, fluctuate, fluctuation, hang, haunt, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitate, hesitation, hover, hum and haw, indecision, irresolution, pause, perplexity, puzzle over, reticence, reverberate, scruple, shilly shally, sound, stick, stop, stumble, tergiversation, timidity, vacillate, vacillation, vibrate, vibration, waver, wobble, worry), ‏إحتج (allege, complain, deprecate, expostulate, grouse, nag, object, pick, protest, remonstrate, represent, take exception to, yell), ‏إعترض (bar, blockade, challenge, cross, except, expostulate, impugn, intercept, interpose, interrupt, intervene, object, object to, obstruct, oppose, protest, remonstrate, stop, take exception to, traverse), ‏إعتراض (blockage, exception, interception, intervention, kick, objection, protest, protestation, quibble, remonstrance, stop, stoppage). (various references)

Bulgarian		колебая се (balance, boggle, chop, crane, dilly dally, dither, falter, fluctuate, hang back, hesitate, hover, hum and haw, jib, pause, pendulate, scruple, seesaw, shilly shally, teeter, vacillate, vibrate, waver, whiffle, wobble, yo-yo), колебание (dubiety, falter, faltering, fluctuation, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, hovel, indecision, oscillation, qualm, quandary, scruple, vacillation, variation, wabble, wavering, wobble), възражение (answer, caveat, demurrer, deprecation, exception, expostulation, objection, protest, protestation, question, rejoinder, remonstrance, reply, reservation), отхвърлям (abnegate, avoid, cast away, cast down, challenge, decline, deny, disallow, disclaim, dismiss, except, exclude, fling away, ignore, kiss off, negative, override, proscribe, rebuff, rebut, refuse, refute, renounce, repudiate, scout, set aside, throw back, throw down, throw off, throw out, toss away, toss over, vote down, wash out, wave aside), опъвам се (jib, kick, stand up, stick up to smb., strain at), противя се (reluct), повдигам възражение. (various references)

Czech		namítat (object, offer), námitka (objection, plea, protest, question, remonstrance), mít námitky (object). (various references)

Farsi		مهلت خواستن , ناز, کمروءی کردن , تاخیر (Deferment, Retardation, Stick, Subsequence), تردیدرای , استثناقاءل شدن . (various references)

French		protester, opposer, hésiter, hésitation, faire des objections, faire des difficultés. (various references)

German		Einwendung (objection). (various references)

Greek		εναντίωση (negativism, objection, opposition), ενδοιασμόσ (compunction, diffidence, qualm, scruple), αντιτείνω (object, raise objections to), αντίρρηση (demurrer, objection, objection to), διστάζω (boggle, dilly dally, doggle, falter, hang back, have second thoughts, hesitate, hesitate about, pause, scruple to, shilly-sally, shrink from, waver), δισταγμόσ (hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, indecision, qualm, scruple). (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"ת� �'�" (be against, brave, discountenance, mind, object, oppose, rebel, resist, take exception to). (various references)

Hungarian		habozás (hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, indecision, irresolution, oscillation, shilly-shally, staggering, wobble), akadékoskodás (angularity, niggling). (various references)

Italian		obiezione (exception, objection), obiettare (interject, object, objet, post, throw in), esitazione (haw, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, qualm, shilly shally), esitare (boggle, falter, halt, hesitance, hesitate, scruple, shilly shally, to find a market, to sell, wabble, waver, wobble). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		異議なく (without demur). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		いぎなく (without demur). (various references)

Manx		thittys (hesitation, impediment of speech). (various references)

Pig Latin		emurday

Portuguese		duvidar (disbeliever, discredit, doubt, misbelieve, query, question), dúvida (doubt, doubting, dubiety, hesperian, mind-breaker, misgovern, objection, puzzle, query, scruple, suspense, suspicion), suspender decisões, pôr dificuldades, objetar (but, dislike, mind, object, remonstrate), objeção (but, challenge, contradiction, objection, with the exception of), irresolução (hesitancy, hesitant, infix, irresolution, shilly shally, wavering), escrúpulo (boggle, compunction, conscience, nicety, qualmishness, scruple, scrupulosity). (various references)

Romanian		ridica obiecţii, protest (caveat, objection, protest, protestation, remonstrance), face dificultãţi, ezitare (hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, hover, indecision, pause, poise, stagger, stumble, vacillation, wavering, wobble), ezita (back, boggle, crane, falter, fluctuate, halt, hang, hesitate, hobble, hold back, pause, scruple, shilly shally, stagger, stand off, stand on, sway, vacillate, veer, waver, wobble). (various references)

Russian		возражать (answer, controvert, deprecate, except, mind, object, objected, objecting, oppugn, reclaim, retort, stickle, take exception to, take objection, talk back, traverse). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		dvoumljenje, prigovarati (animadvert, fuss about, remonstrate, reproach), prigovaranje (animadversion), oklevati (belie, hesitate, jib, linger, pause, procrastinate, shilly shally, traduce), oklevanje (hesitation, lagging, procrastination, shilly shally). (various references)

Spanish		reparo (cavil, criticism, indemnity, objection, observation, remark, repair, reproof), poner reparos (object), oponerse (antagonize, confront, counter, go against, object, oppose, resist, stand up to, take exception to, withstand), objetar (object, remonstrate), objeción (objection, protest, replication). (various references)

Swedish		göra invändningar. (various references)

Turkish		duraksama (baulk, halt, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, hobble, stop), zorluk çıkarmak (fash, hamper, make it warm for smb.), tereddüd (doubt, fluctuation, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, incertitude, indecision, indeterminate, irresolution, oscillation, pause, perplexity, puzzle, quandary, shilly shally, suspense, uncertainty, vacillation, vibration, wobble), karşı koymak (bear against, confront, contest, counter, counteract, counterwork, dispute, face, face up to, fend, fight back, offer resistance, oppugn, refuse, resist, set against, stand, stand out, stand out against, stand up to, stick up to, withstand), itiraz etmek (argue, argue against smth., blow the whistle on, buck, challenge, contest, contravene, deprecate, dispute, except, expostulate, gainsay, interpose, make an objection to, object, object to, oppose, protest, protest against, raise an objection to, remonstrate, take exception to, take objection to), itiraz (but, cavil, challenge, contest, contradiction, deprecation, disapproval, expostulation, objection, outcry, protest, protestation, remonstrance). (various references)

Ukranian		сумніватися (dispute, distrust, doubt, empeach, hesitate, impeach, question, scruple), сумнів (challenge, doubt, dubiety, hesitance, hesitancy, impeachment, misdoubt, offence, offense, qualm, query, question, scruple), вагатися (balance, boggle, deliberate, dilly dally, falter, fluctuate, halt, hesitate, hover, oscillate, pause, stagger, vacillate, vibrate, waver, whiffle), вагання (boggle, embarrassment, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, oscillation, poise, waver, wavering), заперечувати (abnegate, answer, answer back, challenge, contradict, contravene, deny, disaffirm, disallow, disavow, disclaim, disown, expostulate, forbid, gainsay, impugn, mind, negative, nill, object, oppugn, rejoin, talk back), заперечення (answer, but, denegation, denial, deprecation, disavowal, disclaimer, exception, impugnment, nay-say, negative, no, objection, opposition, plea, protest, rejoinder, repudiation, retort), протестувати (cry shame, deprecate, except, expostulate, object, obtest, protest, remonstrate), протест (deprecation, objection, obtestation, protest, protestation, revolt). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự ngần ngại, sự lưỡng lự (doubt, doubtfulness, dubitation, hesitance, hesitancy, incertitude, irresolution, shilly-shally, swither, wabble, wobble), sự do dự (dubitation, indecision, irresolution, oscillation, shilly-shally), sự chần chừ sự có ý kiến phản đối. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Old French	900-1400	demorer. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "demur": demure, demurely, demureness, demurenesses, demurer, demurest, demurrage, demurrages, demurral, demurrals, demurred, demurrer, demurrers, demurring, demurs. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Demur" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Damir, Damur, daur, Daymer, debur, Deburr, defur, dejur, demax, demear, Demir, demiur, demorr, demurr, Demus, demux, denar, Dendur, denir, denor, Detmar, deum, deur, diamir, Dimu, Diur, dmeur, dmu, domu, emur, Kemour, semur, temur. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: mured.
	Words within the letters "d-e-m-r-u"
	-1 letter: derm, drum, dure, mure, rude, rued.
	-2 letters: due, emu, med, mud, red, rem, rue, rum, urd.
	-3 letters: de, ed, em, er, me, mu, re, um.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-m-r-u"
	+1 letter: demure, demurs, dumber, dumper, mudder, murder, remuda.
	+2 letters: crumbed, crumped, decorum, demurer, drumble, drummed, drummer, dumpers, dumpier, duramen, eardrum, embrued, grumped, humored, imbrued, immured, manured, matured, maunder, moulder, mourned, mudders, muddier, muddler, murders, relumed, remudas, resumed, rumbaed, rumbled, rumored, rumpled, trumped, umbered, umpired, unarmed, unrimed, uredium.
	+3 letters: alarumed, armoured, bermudas, bumpered, crumbled, crumpled, cumbered, decorums, delirium, demiurge, demurely, demurest, demurral, demurred, demurrer, diestrum, dimerous, dormouse, dreamful, drumbeat, drumbled, drumbles, drumfire, drumhead, drumlier, drumlike, drummers, dulcimer, dumpster, duramens, eardrums, embruted, exordium, grumbled, humoured, imbruted, lemuroid, lumbered, marauded, marauder, maunders, measured, medullar, misruled, moulders, mouldier, muddlers, muraenid, murdered, murderee, murderer, muriated, murmured, mustered, muttered, numbered, outdream, perfumed, peridium, permuted, presumed, repumped, residuum, rhumbaed, rudiment, rummaged, rumoured, scrummed, smoulder, smudgier, squirmed, strummed, summered, surmised, surnamed, thrummed, udometer, udometry, underarm, undreamt, unformed, unframed, unharmed, unmarked, unmarred, unmitred, unmoored, unprimed, unrhymed, unwarmed.
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