English

Adverb

to one's mind

1. (idiomatic) In one's opinion, from one's point of view.
   • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act 1, sc. 4:

     Hamlet: Ay, marry, is't:

     But to my mind, though I am native here

     And to the manner born, it is a custom

     More honour'd in the breach than the observance.

   • 1864, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Wylder's Hand, ch. 11:

     To my mind there has always been something inexpressibly awful in family feuds.

   • 1914, H. H. Munro (Saki), "Dusk" in Beasts and Super-Beasts:

     Dusk, to his mind, was the hour of the defeated.

   • 2009 April 19, Gabriel Sherman, "The Wail of the 1%," New York Magazine:

     To her mind, extreme compensation is a fair trade for the compromises of such a career.

Usage notes

• Usually used with the first-person singular possessive adjective my, but also found with other possessives.

References

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