All 8 Uses of
presume
in
Pride and Prejudice
- "Your examination of Mr. Darcy is over, I presume," said Miss Bingley; "and pray what is the result?"†
Chpt 11
- His coming into the country at all is a most insolent thing, indeed, and I wonder how he could presume to do it.†
Chpt 18
- Presuming however, that this studied avoidance spoke rather a momentary embarrassment than any dislike of the proposal, and seeing in her husband, who was fond of society, a perfect willingness to accept it, she ventured to engage for her attendance, and the day after the next was fixed on.†
Chpt 44
- Oh! but their removing from the chaise into a hackney coach is such a presumption!†
Chpt 47
- Pray forgive me if I have been very presuming, or at least do not punish me so far as to exclude me from P. I shall never be quite happy till I have been all round the park.†
Chpt 52
- There was nothing of presumption or folly in Bingley that could provoke his ridicule, or disgust him into silence; and he was more communicative, and less eccentric, than the other had ever seen him.†
Chpt 55
- This match, to which you have the presumption to aspire, can never take place.†
Chpt 56 *
- Your daughter Elizabeth, it is presumed, will not long bear the name of Bennet, after her elder sister has resigned it, and the chosen partner of her fate may be reasonably looked up to as one of the most illustrious personages in this land.'†
Chpt 57
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