All 11 Uses of
conjecture
in
War and Peace
- Rostov watched his enemy, the colonel, closely—to find in his face confirmation of his own conjecture, but the colonel did not once glance at Rostov, and looked as he always did when at the front, solemn and stern.†
Chpt 2 *
- Sometimes it occurred to Natasha that he did not wish to see her, and this conjecture was confirmed by the sad tone in which her elders spoke of him.†
Chpt 6
- He made thousands of different conjectures as to where and from what side the beast would come and how he would set upon it.†
Chpt 7
- There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that however it may end there will always be people to say: "I said then that it would be so," quite forgetting that amid their innumerable conjectures many were to quite the contrary effect.†
Chpt 10
- There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that however it may end there will always be people to say: "I said then that it would be so," quite forgetting that amid their innumerable conjectures many were to quite the contrary effect.†
Chpt 10
- Conjectures as to Napoleon's awareness of the danger of extending his line, and (on the Russian side) as to luring the enemy into the depths of Russia, are evidently of that kind, and only by much straining can historians attribute such conceptions to Napoleon and his marshals, or such plans to the Russian commanders.†
Chpt 10
- All the facts are in flat contradiction to such conjectures.†
Chpt 10
- Animated by that address Anna Pavlovna's guests talked for a long time of the state of the fatherland and offered various conjectures as to the result of the battle to be fought in a few days.†
Chpt 12
- Another, a thin little officer, was speaking to everyone, conjecturing where they were now being taken and how far they would get that day.†
Chpt 13
- Napoleon's historians describe to us his skilled maneuvers at Tarutino and Malo-Yaroslavets, and make conjectures as to what would have happened had Napoleon been in time to penetrate into the rich southern provinces.†
Chpt 13
- Denisov turned away from him frowning and addressed the esaul, conveying his own conjectures to him.†
Chpt 14
Definition:
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(conjecture) a conclusion or opinion based on inconclusive evidence; or the act of forming of such a conclusion or opinioneditor's notes: A conjecture can be widely believed, but the word is also frequently used to imply that evidence is insufficient to support a belief.