Presume is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PRESUME in dictionary:

VERB:
• to take for granted
• suppose that something is the case on the basis of probability
• take for granted that something exists or is the case
• be arrogant or impertinent enough to do something
• make unjustified demands; take liberties
• unjustifiably regard (something) as entitling one to privileges
• suppose to be the case
• To assume or take beforehand; esp., to do or undertake without leave or authority previously obtained.
• To take or suppose to be true, or entitled to belief, without examination or proof, or on the strength of probability; to take for granted; to infer; to suppose.
• To suppose or assume something to be, or to be true, on grounds deemed valid, though not amounting to proof; to believe by anticipation; to infer; as, we may presume too far.
• To venture, go, or act, by an assumption of leave or authority not granted; to go beyond what is warranted by the circumstances of the case; to venture beyond license; to take liberties; -- often with on or upon before the ground of confidence.
• take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof
• take upon oneself; act presumptuously, without permission
• constitute reasonable evidence for
• take liberties or act with too much confidence

Words related to PRESUME

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Words that contain PRESUME

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How to use PRESUME in a sentence

• But the prophet which shall presume to speak ought in my name which I commanded him not to speak, and he that speaketh in the name of strange gods, the same prophet shall die.
• I presume no American citizen would desire the slightest change in the arrangement.
• It will, I presume, be allowed that no human character, which we have the opportunity of studying with equal minuteness, had fewer faults mixed up in its texture.
• Like Dufferin, he measured exactly the distance to which a correspondent could be treated confidentially, without encouraging him to presume on cordiality.
• The truth is, that to Lord Palmerston it was still incomprehensible and intolerable that a couple of manufacturers from Lancashire should presume to teach him foreign policy.
• Exactly what advantages he expected to derive therefrom are not apparent, though I presume that he hoped to draw conclusions as to the best time for planting crops.
• If she would give herself these airs in his life-time, what would she attempt to do after his death? Her boy threatens any body who shall presume to insult their mother.
• I presume that he proposed a few moments of mourning, for when he stopped the whole assemblage burst forth into a bitter wailing, some screaming as if in agony.
• None of our readers, we presume, would feel disposed to charge our hardened baronet with any tendency to superstition.
• There was no harm that he took away your headache, if he did not presume on that.
• You have an exceptional degree, and I presume a fair knowledge of the world.
• You do not suppose, I presume, that London and Rome are absolutely privileged from the fate which has overtaken Babylon and Memphis.
• I presume when a speaker has prepared himself he is going to get about the best things out of his subject, and will put them in a way to take hold and benefit young men.
• The natives presume them to be Dutch, but say that the latter do not resemble the present mark of the Company.
• Therefore, while retaining my own notions, I do not presume to quarrel with his.
• I presume all my readers have seen moving pictures many times, and perhaps many of you know how they are made.
• I presume that Trochu will make a second sortie in force.
• The writers whom I have just named are dead, at least I presume so, for I must not profess to have done more than touch their winding-sheets in the course of my private reading.
• This, we presume, is the ever-present dread of schoolmistresses.
• On all other points it becomes a fair war risk to presume upon their happy-go-lucky behaviour.
• Your Northern people have made soldiers of our servants, and will, I presume, make voters of them.
• Then never presume to say that anything is impossible to God.
• From hence I presume it arises that so many People call themselves Virtuous, from no other Pretence to it but an Absence of Ill.
• If any of your audience presume to dispute, or think they can do the same, let them try it.
• When writers of fiction speak of the eyes being widely dilated, I presume that they refer to the eyelids.
• I presume this gentleman to have been David Veitch, brother to Veitch of Dawick, who, with many other of the Peebles-shire gentry, was taken at Philiphaugh.
• Our readers, we presume, all know how this was brought to pass.
• It was cold comfort I presume, but yet I derived some slight peace of mind from the contemplation of it.
• Whence this proceeds I will not presume to determine.
• But the impression of the moment was, we presume, not quite so favourable.
• As to the difference of colour between the Eboan Africans and the modern Jews, I shall not presume to account for it.
• But it is very remarkable how Ignorance will make Men bold, and presume to declare that unnecessary, which they will not be at the pains to render useful.

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