Crossword-Solution: PRESUMPTION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Presumption | n. | The act of presuming, or believing upon probable evidence; the act of assuming or taking for granted; belief upon incomplete proof. |
| Presumption | n. | Ground for presuming; evidence probable, but not conclusive; strong probability; reasonable supposition; as, the presumption is that an event has taken place. |
| Presumption | n. | That which is presumed or assumed; that which is supposed or believed to be real or true, on evidence that is probable but not conclusive. |
| Presumption | n. | The act of venturing beyond due beyond due bounds; an overstepping of the bounds of reverence, respect, or courtesy; forward, overconfident, or arrogant opinion or conduct; presumptuousness; arrogance; effrontery. |
We have 29 clues for the answer “PRESUMPTION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Uppermost in (anag) – front | 1 answer |
| audacious behavior that you have no right to | 1 answer |
| a kind of discourtesy in the form of an act of presuming | 1 answer |
| Strong probability. | 1 answer |
| viability | 13 answers |
| plausibility | 14 answers |
| latency | 17 answers |
| supposition | 19 answers |
| credibility | 24 answers |
| Probability | 24 answers |
| inference | 28 answers |
| Impudence | 33 answers |
| Odds | 38 answers |
| expectation | 39 answers |
| Insolence | 44 answers |
| possibility | 45 answers |
| Effrontery | 45 answers |
| boldness | 46 answers |
| Chutzpah | 47 answers |
| ideality | 48 answers |
| Fearlessness. | 49 answers |
| Arrogance | 50 answers |
| assumption | 51 answers |
| Assurance | 57 answers |
| Confidence | 58 answers |
| incorrectness | 60 answers |
| propulsion | 63 answers |
| Cheek | 66 answers |
| Belief | 73 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with PRESUMPTION (5)
And if she were to marry again I expect I should bide with her.” “She promises that you shall—quite natural,” said the strategic lover, throbbing throughout him at the presumption which Liddy’s words appeared to warrant—that his darling had thought of re-marriage.
Wherever people met young Ottenburg, in his office, on shipboard, in a foreign hotel or railway compartment, they always felt (and usually liked) that artless presumption which seemed to say, “In this case we may waive formalities.
They know by old experience that when they get hold of a presumption-tadpole he is not going to _stay_ tadpole in their history-tank; no, they know how to develop him into the giant four-legged bullfrog of _fact_, and make him sit up on his hams, and puff out his chin, and look important and insolent and come-to-stay; and assert his genuine simon-pure authenticity with a thundering bellow that will convince everybody because it is so loud.
The State, having thus learned that I did not wish to be regarded as a member of that church, has never made a like demand on me since; though it said that it must adhere to its original presumption that time.
All stood astonished at his presumption, but none more than the redoubted Knight whom he had thus defied to mortal combat, and who, little expecting so rude a challenge, was standing carelessly at the door of the pavilion.
Quotes with PRESUMPTION (3)
Do any of us, except in our dreams, truly expect to be reunited with our hearts' deepest loves, even when they leave us only for minutes, and on the most mundane of errands? No, not at all. Each time they go from our sight we in our secret hearts count them as dead. Having been given so much, we reason, how could we expect not to be brought as low as Lucifer for the staggering presumption of our love?
There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.
Our critique is not opposed to the *dogmatic procedure* of reason in its pure knowledge as science (for science must always be dogmatic, that is, derive its proof from secure *a priori* principles), but only to *dogmatism*, that is, to the presumption that it is possible to make any progress with pure (philosophical) knowledge from concepts according to principles, such as reason has long been in the habit of using, without first inquiring in what way, and by what right, it h…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1965).