demur: [13] Like its French cousin demeurer, demur originally meant ‘stay, linger’. It was not until the 17th century that the current sense, ‘raise objections’, developed, via earlier ‘delay’ and ‘hesitate in uncertainty’. The word comes via Old French demorer and Vulgar Latin *dēmorāre from Latin dēmorārī, a compound verb formed from the intensive prefix dē- and morārī ‘delay’ (source also of English moratorium [19]). => demure, moratorium
demur (v.)
c. 1200, "to linger, tarry, delay," from Old French demorer "delay, retard," from Latin demorari "to linger, loiter, tarry," from de- (see de-) + morari "to delay," from mora "a pause, delay" (see moratorium). Main modern sense of "raise objections" is first attested 1630s. Related: Demurred; demurring.
例文
1. They accepted without demur .
彼らは受け入れ、異議を申し立てなかった。
2.When Scobie opened the door and stood aside for her to enter,she did so without demur .
スコープがドアを開けて横に立って中に入れたとき、彼女は迷わずそうした。
3.O 'Brien 's servant,however,had admitted the two of them without demur .
しかし、オブリャンの召使いは何も言わずに2人を入れた。
4.Without demur ,they joined the party in my rooms.
彼らは辞退せずに私の部屋に行って一緒に会食した。
5.In the end Nixon accepted our unanimous advice without demur .