Both Uses of
supposition
in
Bleak House
- If you entertain the supposition that any real success, in great things or in small, ever was or could be, ever will or can be, wrested from Fortune by fits and starts, leave that wrong idea here or leave your cousin Ada here.†
Chpt 13-15
- Ada looked so very anxious now that I asked Mrs. Badger on what she founded her supposition.†
Chpt 16-18 *
Definition:
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(supposition) something supposed (rather than something known to be so) -- such as a disputed belief or assumption