Both Uses of
presume
in
Sense and Sensibility
- Perhaps, then, you would bestow it as a reward on that person who wrote the ablest defence of your favourite maxim, that no one can ever be in love more than once in their life—your opinion on that point is unchanged, I presume?†
Chpt 17
- Elinor sighed over the fancied necessity of this; but to a man and a soldier she presumed not to censure it.†
Chpt 31 *
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