opinion

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty

   my opinion differs from yours

2. 2
   noun

   the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision

   opinions are usually written by a single judge

3. 3
   noun

   A belief, judgment or perspective that a person has formed, either through objective or subjective reasoning, about a topic, issue, person or thing.

   I would like to know your opinions on the new filing system.

4. 4
   noun

   The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation.

   I haue bought / Golden Opinions from all ſorts of people, […]

5. 5
   noun

   Favorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem.

   Thou haſt redeemed thy loſt opinion, […]

6. 6
   noun

   Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness.

   […] your reaſons at Dinner haue been ſharpe & ſententious: pleaſant without ſcurillitie, wittie without affection, audatious without impudencie, learned without opinion, and ſtrange without hereſie: […]

7. 7
   verb

   To have or express as an opinion.

   Philoſophers that opinioned the vvorlds deſtruction by fire, did never dreame of annihilation, vvhich is beyond the povver of ſublunary cauſes; for the laſt and proper action of that element [fire] is but vitrification, or a reduction of a body into Glaſſe, and therefore ſome of our Chymicks factiouſly affirme; yea, and urge Scripture for it, that at the laſt fire all ſhall be cryſtallized and reverberated into Glaſſe, vvhich is the utmoſt action of that element.

8. 8
   noun

   the reason for a court's judgment (as opposed to the decision itself)

Etymology

From English opine + -ion, from Middle English opinion, opinioun, from Anglo-Norman and Middle French opinion, from Latin opīniō, from opīnor (“to opine”). Displaced native Old English wēna.