Both Uses of
supposition
in
Oliver Twist
- Her disordered appearance, and a wholesale perfume of Geneva which pervaded the apartment, afforded strong confirmatory evidence of the justice of the Jew's supposition;†
Chpt 26
- Her altered manner, her repeated absences from home alone, her comparative indifference to the interests of the gang for which she had once been so zealous, and, added to these, her desperate impatience to leave home that night at a particular hour, all favoured the supposition, and rendered it, to him at least, almost matter of certainty.†
Chpt 44 *
Definition:
something supposed (rather than something known to be so) -- such as a disputed belief or assumption