Both Uses of
premise
in
Wuthering Heights
- Still, I was not rid of him: when at length they compelled me to depart, and I had got some hundred yards off the premises, he suddenly issued from the shadow of the road-side, and checked Minny and took hold of me.†
Chpt 24
- I reached the Grange before sunset, and knocked for admittance; but the family had retreated into the back premises, I judged, by one thin, blue wreath, curling from the kitchen chimney, and they did not hear.†
Chpt 32 *
Definition:
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(premise as in: the premise of the argument) something assumed to be true and upon which other things are based