All 8 Uses of
conjecture
in
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- Well, it is conjectured to be so.†
Chpt 4conjectured = concluded or guessed based on inconclusive evidence
- Some, too, have baffled his analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to him.†
Chpt 5
- Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door.†
Chpt 5
- It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats.†
Chpt 5conjectured = concluded or guessed based on inconclusive evidence
- It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be conjectured, but the reward offered of £1000 is certainly not within a twentieth part of the market price.†
Chpt 7
- My whole examination served to turn my conjecture into a certainty.
Chpt 10 *conjecture = a conclusion or opinion based on inconclusive evidence
- When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture became a certainty.†
Chpt 11
- There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
a conclusion or opinion based on inconclusive evidence; or the act of forming of such a conclusion or opinion
A conjecture can be widely believed, but the word is also frequently used to imply that evidence is insufficient to support a belief.