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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Deferred

The Bible

Bible Usage:

Dictionaries:

  • Included in Eastons: No
  • Included in Hitchcocks: No
  • Included in Naves: No
  • Included in Smiths: No
  • Included in Websters: Yes
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: Yes
  • Included in BDB: Yes

Strongs Concordance:

Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Defer

DEFER, verb transitive [Latin To bear.]

1. To delay; to put off; to postpone to a future time; as, to defer the execution of a design.

When thou vowest a vow, defer not to pay it. Ecclesiastes 5:4.

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. Proverbs 13:12.

2. To refer; to leave to anothers judgment and determination.

[In this sense, refer is now used.]


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Deference

DEFERENCE, noun

1. A yielding in opinion; submission of judgment to the opinion or judgment of another. Hence, regard; respect. We often decline acting in opposition to those for whose wisdom we have a great deference

2. Complaisance; condescension.

3. Submission.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Deferent

DEFERENT, adjective Bearing; carrying; conveying.

DEFERENT, noun

1. That which carries or conveys. The deferent of a planet, is an imaginary circle or orb in the Ptolemaic system, that is supposed to carry about the body of the planet.

2. A vessel in the human body for the conveyance of fluids.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Deferential

DEFERENTIAL, , adjective Expressing deference.


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Deferment

DEFERMENT, noun Delay.


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Deferrer

DEFERRER, noun One who delays or puts off.


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Deferring

DEFERRING, participle present tense Delaying; postponing.