All 5 Uses of
conjecture
in
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- There were many conjectures as to the cause of this terrible punishment.†
Chpt 2 *conjectures = guesses (opinions based on inconclusive evidence)
- I had no means of conjecturing who I was to meet, or where I was going.†
Chpt 18conjecturing = concluding or guessing based on inconclusive evidence
- I instantly conjectured it was one of the housemaids; and I concluded she must either have heard some noise in the room, or have noticed the entrance of Betty.†
Chpt 20conjectured = concluded or guessed based on inconclusive evidence
- I now recollected that I had seen him manifest uneasiness, when people were on that side of the house, and I had at the time been puzzled to conjecture a motive for his actions.†
Chpt 29
- It was conjectured that he advanced the money, but it was not known.†
Chpt 34conjectured = concluded or guessed based on inconclusive evidence
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.