All 3 Uses of
surmise
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- "What do I know about love and women and how can I decide such questions?" he thought reproachfully, after such doubts and surmises.†
Chpt 4 *
- She arrived only five minutes before Pyotr Ilyitch, so that his story came, not as his own surmise and theory, but as the direct confirmation, by a witness, of the theory held by all, as to the identity of the criminal (a theory he had in the bottom of his heart refused to believe till that moment).†
Chpt 9
- We all knew that the affair had aroused great interest, that every one was burning with impatience for the trial to begin, that it had been a subject of talk, conjecture, exclamation and surmise for the last two months in local society.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(surmise) to conclude something is true based on incomplete evidence