All 10 Uses of
conjecture
in
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- However, it soon grew clear that the hour of emancipation for that little prisoner of the flesh was to arrive earlier than her worst misgiving had conjectured.†
Chpt 2 *
- So the baby was carried in a small deal box, under an ancient woman's shawl, to the churchyard that night, and buried by lantern-light, at the cost of a shilling and a pint of beer to the sexton, in that shabby corner of God's allotment where He lets the nettles grow, and where all unbaptized infants, notorious drunkards, suicides, and others of the conjecturally damned are laid.†
Chpt 2
- There had seemed nothing at all out of keeping with such a conjectured career in the storing up of these showy ornaments for his wife and the wives of her descendants.†
Chpt 4
- She sat down with the jewels upon her; and they again indulged in conjectures as to where Jonathan could possibly be with their baggage.†
Chpt 4
- Both knew that it was in their two minds that they might part the next morning for ever, despite the gloss of assuaging conjectures thrown over their proceeding because they were of the sort to whom any parting which has an air of finality is a torture.†
Chpt 5
- His ultimate intention, if he had any, she had not yet divined; and she found herself conjecturing on the matter as a third person might have done.†
Chpt 5
- But the realities of his situation soon displaced conjecture on the other subject.†
Chpt 5
- Yet the intrinsic quality of the event moved his touchy sensitiveness less than its conjectured effect upon the minds of others.†
Chpt 5
- Standing there, he for the first time doubted whether his course in this conjecture had been a wise, much less a generous, one.†
Chpt 5
- Conjecture was useless, and just after twelve o'clock he entered and went to bed.†
Chpt 7
Definition:
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(conjecture) a conclusion or opinion based on inconclusive evidence; or the act of forming of such a conclusion or opinioneditor's notes: A conjecture can be widely believed, but the word is also frequently used to imply that evidence is insufficient to support a belief.