All 7 Uses of
supposition
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- This made him less uneasy, it must be owned, than if the new-comer had proved to be a customs officer; but this supposition also disappeared like the first, when he beheld the perfect tranquillity of his recruit.†
Chpt 22-23 *
- And was he not the person who was assassinated one evening on leaving a Bonapartist meeting to which he had been invited on the supposition that he favored the cause of the emperor?†
Chpt 59-60
- "And then, you know," he said, "an idea, a supposition, is sufficient."†
Chpt 63-64
- "I thank you for the warning," said the count; "I shall endeavor to be prepared for all suppositions."†
Chpt 67-68
- Noirtier looked his conviction that she was right in her supposition.†
Chpt 79-80
- You say an exterminating angel appears to have devoted that house to God's anger—well, who says your supposition is not reality?†
Chpt 93-94
- "You remember," said the count, during the most profound silence, "that the unhappy wretch who came to rob me died at my house; the supposition is that he was stabbed by his accomplice, on attempting to leave it."†
Chpt 95-96
Definition:
something supposed (rather than something known to be so) -- such as a disputed belief or assumption