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presumptuously
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What does presumptuously mean?
adverb
- In a presumptuous manner; arrogantly.
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The only point in which I PRESUMPTUOUSLY rather demur is about the status of the naturalised plants in Australia.
They presume they ought not to fear; and, therefore, in despite of them, wax presumptuously confident.
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I know you will understand and not object to my thus expressing my opinion (for one must form one) so presumptuously.
"The man that will doe presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the Priest, (that standeth to Minister there before the Lord thy God, or unto the Judge,) even that man shall die, and thou shalt put away the evill from Israel."
They decide presumptuously and in a lump, This man is a murderer, a hero, a coward, the slave of avarice, or the votary of philanthropy; and then, surveying the outside of his head, undertake to find in him the configuration that should indicate these dispositions, and must be found in all persons of a similar character, or rather whose acts bear the same outward form, and seem analogous to his.