deemster
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English demester, demster, equivalent to deem (“to judge”) + -ster.
Noun
[edit]deemster (plural deemsters)
- (now dialectal, Isle of Man) A judge; one who pronounces sentence or doom.
- 1767, The Gentleman's and London Magazine:
- If you hire a house for a year, and before the end of a month, happen to disagree with your landlord, he goes to the Deemster, and tells him, that he suspects you intend to leave the island, without paying his rent; […]
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Dutch deemster, demster (“dark”), from Old Dutch *thimster (in the compound thimsternisse (“darkness”)), from Proto-West Germanic *þimstr.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]deemster m (uncountable)
- (Belgium, dated in Netherlands) twilight
- Synonyms: schemering, halfduister, halfdonker, deemstering, schemerdonker, schemerlicht, tweedonker, tweelicht
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