Both Uses of
surmise
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- However, as a matter of fact though, the preposterous surmise about him being in some description of a doldrums or other or mesmerised which was entirely due to a misconception of the shallowest character, was not the case at all.†
Chpt 14 *
- However in another pocket he came across what he surmised in the dark were pennies, erroneously however, as it turned out.†
Chpt 16
Definition:
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(surmise) to conclude something is true based on incomplete evidence