Today's Word "demur"
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demur \dih-MUR\ (intransitive verb) - 1 : To object; to take exception. 2 : To delay.
(noun) - 1 : The act of demurring. 2 : Objection. 3 : Delay.
"Whenever Alice would ask to see something Tom had written, he would demur, saying that anything he had written was terrible."
Demur comes from Old French demorer, "to linger, to stay," from Latin demorari, from de- + morari, "to delay, to loiter," from mora, "a delay."
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