All 4 Uses of
supposition
in
The Mill on the Floss
- Such a supposition could only have arisen from a too-superficial acquaintance with the habits of the Dodson family.†
Chpt 1.9 *
- No news of his sister had been heard since Bob Jakin had come back in the steamer from Mudport, and put an end to all improbable suppositions of an accident on the water by stating that he had seen her land from a vessel with Mr. Stephen Guest.†
Chpt 7.1
- The tone of Stephen's letter, which he had read, and the actual relations of all the persons concerned, forced upon him powerfully the idea of an ultimate marriage between Stephen and Maggie as the least evil; and the impossibility of their proximity in St. Ogg's on any other supposition, until after years of separation, threw an insurmountable prospective difficulty over Maggie's stay there.†
Chpt 7.2
- Even on the supposition that required the utmost stretch of belief,—namely, that none of the things said about Miss Tulliver were true,—still, since they had been said about her, they had cast an odor round her which must cause her to be shrunk from by every woman who had to take care of her own reputation—and of Society.†
Chpt 7.4
Definition:
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(supposition) something supposed (rather than something known to be so) -- such as a disputed belief or assumption