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presumption

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11 letters · collected on this word page

11 lettersPronunciation /pɹɪˈzʌmp.ʃən/Part of speech nounSorted eimnopprstuStarts with PEnds with N1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a kind of discourtesy in the form of an act of presuming

Word origin

From pre- + Latin sūmptus + -ion, from Middle English presumpcioun, presumption, from Old French presumption and its etymon Latin praesūmptiō.

Used in a sentence

  • Yet, in contradiction to all these very plausible presumptions, even this remote period teems with its own peculiar and separate instruction.
  • The presumption is that an event has taken place.
  • Note the preſumption of this Scythian ſlaue: I tel thee villaine, thoſe that lead my horſe Haue to their names tytles of dignitie, And dar’ſt thou bluntly cal me Baiazeth?

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