Both Uses
surmise
in
Macbeth
(Edited)
- Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings: My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man, that function Is smother'd in surmise; and nothing is But what is not.
p. 23.9 *
- Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings: My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man, that function Is smother'd in surmise; and nothing is But what is not.
p. 22.1 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(surmise) to guess something is true or form an opinion based on incomplete evidence
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)