Crossword-Solution: PRESUMES
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PRESUMES | anagram | SUPREMES |
We have 10 clues for the answer “PRESUMES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Makes assumptions | 1 answer |
| Makes conjectures | 1 answer |
| Oversteps | 1 answer |
| Undertakes without permission | 1 answer |
| Takes as a given | 2 answers |
| Takes for granted | 4 answers |
| Take liberties | 4 answers |
| Supposes | 6 answers |
| Infers | 8 answers |
| BE GRANTED | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERETA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PRESUMES (5)
But fall’n he is, and now What rests, but that the mortal Sentence pass On his transgression, Death denounc’t that day, Which he presumes already vain and void, Because not yet inflicted, as he fear’d, By some immediate stroak; but soon shall find Forbearance no acquittance ere day end.
This book, while it presumes to record what Pat Higgins was thinking as he sat in front of a country store, seems to be "the true story." The bare facts in it make drama.
Our friend presumes not on any past acquaintance; he makes the briefest possible response to all general remarks, and shrinks quietly into himself again.
Gatterer presumes that this river was the Danube; a passage in Zosimus appears to me rather to indicate the Rhine.
From this principle he justly concluded, that the man who presumes to reign, should aspire to the perfection of the divine nature; that he should purify his soul from her mortal and terrestrial part; that he should extinguish his appetites, enlighten his understanding, regulate his passions, and subdue the wild beast, which, according to the lively metaphor of Aristotle, 48 seldom fails to ascend the throne of a despot.
Quotes with PRESUMES (3)
What, more realistically, is this “mutation,” the “new man”? He is the rootless man, discontinuous with a past that Nihilism has destroyed, the raw material of every demagogue’s dream; the “free-thinker” and skeptic, closed only to the truth but “open” to each new intellectual fashion because he himself has no intellectual foundation; the “seeker” after some “new revelation,” ready to believe anything new because true faith has been annihilated in him; the planner and experim…
Beware the God who seeks praise. Beware the guru who presumes to teach that which is unfixed and boundless. Beware the healer who sets a price on aid. Beware the lover who would make you a lesser version of yourself. Beware the doctrines that discourage independent thought. Beware any person of faith who doesn’t understand doubt. Filter all things through yourself. Accept only that which sits right with your soul.
As for the belief that humanity is mostly good, Secular humanism, when in that alignment, always presumes the existence of a higher power, or some god-like influence on man. Because it then becomes the belief that people are generally good and should be protected from the wiles of religion, as though this dark, vague and ignorant force once fell from the heavens, latched onto the purer hearts and minds of men and women, and, in all its forms, controlled and polluted the whole…
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Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 16 times in crossword archives (1989–2020).