LekhoriLekhoriBased on presumption or conjecture; inferred, likely, presumed.
By late May, he was already considered his party’s presumptive nominee.
Synonym of presumptuous (“making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions, often out of arrogance or excessive self-confidence, and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right”).
Forgive me for being presumptive, but aren’t you and Mark engaged?
Chiefly in presumptive evidence: providing a reasonable basis for a certain presumption or conclusion to be drawn.
The perſon in this ſituation [having a mere right of property without possession or the right of possession of the property] may have the true ultimate property of the lands in himſelf: but by the intervention of certain circumſtances, either by his ovvn negligence, the ſolemn act of his anceſtor, or the determination of a court of juſtice, the preſumptive evidence of that right is ſtrongly in favour of his antagoniſt; vvho has thereby obtained the abſolute right of poſſeſſion.
PIE word *upó From Late Middle English presumptif, presumptijf (“based on presumption”), from Anglo-Norman presumptif and Middle French presumptif, présomptif (“based on presumption; of an heir or he...
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