to one's mind

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Prepositional phrase

to one's mind

1. (idiomatic) In one's opinion, from one's point of view.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv], page 257, column 1:

     And to my mind, though I am natiue heere / And to the manner borne: It is a Cuſtome / More honour'd in the breach, then the obſeruance.

   • 1864, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “In which Lake under the Trees of Brandon, and I in My Chamber, Smoke Our Nocturnal Cigars”, in Wylder’s Hand. […], New York, N.Y.: Carleton, […], published 1865, →OCLC, page 63:

     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.

   • 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XXV, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:

     The words were ordinary enough, and to my mind there was in them something so hortatory that I almost smiled.

   • 2009 April 17, Gabriel Sherman, “The Wail of the 1%”, in New York Magazine‎^[1]:

     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.

Translations

to one's mind — see in one's opinion

Further reading

• “to my mind”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.