Both Uses of
premise
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- Bathsheba's momentary impulse at hearing this was to ask why he thought that, till she remembered that, far from being a conceited assumption on Boldwood's part, it was but the natural conclusion of serious reflection based on deceptive premises of her own offering.†
Chpt 19-21
- Her way back to the house was by a path through a young plantation of tapering firs, which had been planted some years earlier to shelter the premises from the north wind.†
Chpt 22-24 *
Definition:
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(premise as in: the premise of the argument) something assumed to be true and upon which other things are based