Both Uses of
surmise
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- The triumphant sense of security, of deliverance from overwhelming danger, that was what filled his whole soul that moment without thought for the future, without analysis, without suppositions or surmises, without doubts and without questioning.†
Chpt 2.1 *
- He knocked some time before he was admitted, and his visit at first caused great perturbation; but Svidrigailov could be very fascinating when he liked, so that the first, and indeed very intelligent surmise of the sensible parents that Svidrigailov had probably had so much to drink that he did not know what he was doing vanished immediately.†
Chpt 6.6
Definition:
to guess something is true or form an opinion based on incomplete evidence