Shak.
Friendship . . . gives a man a peculiar right and claim to the good
opinion of his friend.
South.
However, I have no opinion of those things.
Bacon.
3. Favorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public
sentiment or esteem. [Obs.]
Thou hast redeemed thy lost opinion.
Shak.
This gained Agricola much opinion, who . . . had made such early
progress into laborious . . . enterprises.
Milton.
4. Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness;
conceitedness. [Obs.] Shak.
5. (Law.) The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an
umpire, a counselor, or other party officially called upon to consider
and decide upon a matter or point submitted.
To be of opinion, to think; to judge. - - To hold opinion with, to
agree with. [Obs.] Shak.
Syn. -- Sentiment; notion; persuasion; idea; view; estimation. See
Sentiment.