All 8 Uses of
presume
in
Wuthering Heights
- I presume, because, with that face, I'm sure you cannot help being good-hearted.†
Chpt 2
- Mr. Hindley had gone from home one afternoon, and Heathcliff presumed to give himself a holiday on the strength of it.†
Chpt 8
- Then the doctor had said that she would not bear crossing much; she ought to have her own way; and it was nothing less than murder in her eyes for any one to presume to stand up and contradict her.†
Chpt 9
- I couldn't withhold giving some loose to my indignation; but Catherine angrily insisted on silence, and threatened to order me out of the kitchen, if I dared to be so presumptuous as to put in my insolent tongue.†
Chpt 11 *
- At present he's discharged from the trouble of calling; owing to some presumptuous aspirations after Miss Linton which he manifested.†
Chpt 12
- It is both mean and presumptuous to add your torture to his!'†
Chpt 17
- I presume you grew weary of the amusement and dropped it, didn't you?†
Chpt 22
- I sobbed and wept so that my eyes were almost blind; and the ruffian you have such sympathy with stood opposite: presuming every now and then to bid me "wisht," and denying that it was his fault; and, finally, frightened by my assertions that I would tell papa, and that he should be put in prison and hanged, he commenced blubbering himself, and hurried out to hide his cowardly agitation.†
Chpt 24
Definition:
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(presumptuous as in: she is presumptuous) exercising privileges to which one is not entitled -- such as being too familiar or too bossy