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Defer [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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

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

3. Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. Proverbs 13:1 .

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

5. [In this sense, refer is now used.]

Defer [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To put off; to delay to act; to wait.

2. To yield deference to the wishes of another; to submit to the opinion of another, or to authority; -- with to.

Defer [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To put off; to postpone to a future time; to delay the execution of; to delay; to withhold.

2. To render or offer.

3. To lay before; to submit in a respectful manner; to refer; -- with to.

Deference [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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.

Deference [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A yielding of judgment or preference from respect to the wishes or opinion of another; submission in opinion; regard; respect; complaisance.

Deferent [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Bearing; carrying; conveying.

Deferent [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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.

Deferent [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Serving to carry; bearing.

Deferent [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. That which carries or conveys.

2. An imaginary circle surrounding the earth, in whose periphery either the heavenly body or the center of the heavenly body's epicycle was supposed to be carried round.

Deferential [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Expressing deference.

Deferential [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Expressing deference; accustomed to defer.

Deferentially [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

With deference.

Deferment [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Delay.

Deferment [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The act of delaying; postponement.

Deferred [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Defer

Deferrer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One who delays or puts off.

Deferrer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who defers or puts off.

Deferring [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Delaying; postponing.

Deferring [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Defer

Defervescence [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Defervescency

Defervescency [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A subsiding from a state of ebullition; loss of heat; lukewarmness.

2. The subsidence of a febrile process; as, the stage of defervescence in pneumonia.

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10 KJV and 2 BSB verses contain “Defer”

Genesis 34:19

And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter: and he was more honourable than all the house of his father.

The young man, who was the most respected of all his father’s household, did not hesitate to fulfill this request, because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter.

Proverbs 13:12

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but desire fulfilled is a tree of life.

Proverbs 19:11

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.

A man’s insight gives him patience, and his virtue is to overlook an offense.

Ecclesiastes 5:4

When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.

When you make a vow to God, do not delay in fulfilling it, because He takes no pleasure in fools. Fulfill your vow.

Isaiah 48:9

For my name’s sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.

For the sake of My name I will delay My wrath; for the sake of My praise I will restrain it, so that you will not be cut off.

Daniel 9:19

O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.

O Lord, listen! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, hear and act! For Your sake, O my God, do not delay, because Your city and Your people bear Your name.”

Luke 18:7

And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?

Will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry out to Him day and night? Will He continue to defer their help?

Acts 24:22

And when Felix heard these things, having more perfect knowledge of that way, he deferred them, and said, When Lysias the chief captain shall come down, I will know the uttermost of your matter.

Then Felix, who was well informed about the Way, adjourned the hearing and said, “When Lysias the commander comes, I will decide your case.”

Judith 2:13

And take thou heed that thou transgress none of the commandments of thy lord, but accomplish them fully, as I have commanded thee, and defer not to do them.

Sirach 4:3

Add not more trouble to an heart that is vexed; and defer not to give to him that is in need.

Sirach 18:22

Let nothing hinder thee to pay thy vow in due time, and defer not until death to be justified.