All 14 Uses of
presume
in
The Remains of the Day
- In fact, as I recall, I was up on the step-ladder dusting the portrait of Viscount Wetherby when my employer had entered carrying a few volumes which he presumably wished returned to the shelves.†
Chpt Prol.presumably = probablystandard suffix: The suffix "-ably" is a combination of the suffixes "-able" and "-ly". It means in a manner that is capable of being. This is the same pattern you see in words like agreeably, favorably, and comfortably.
- Of course, I could not have expressed this view to Mr Farraday without embarking upon what might have seemed a presumptuous speech.
Chpt Prol. *presumptuous = exercising social privileges to which one is not entitled
- To have continued pronouncing aloud my thoughts on the future of Darlington Hall would have been, to say the very least, presumptuous.†
Chpt Prol.presumptuous = exercising privileges to which one is not entitled
- It was this realization, along with the fact that he was in M. Dupont's room, presumably addressing this most crucial personage, that caused me to stop my hand from knocking, and continue to listen instead.†
Chpt 2m -presumably = probablystandard suffix: The suffix "-ably" is a combination of the suffixes "-able" and "-ly". It means in a manner that is capable of being. This is the same pattern you see in words like agreeably, favorably, and comfortably.
- Presumably you must have worked for him.†
Chpt 2a -
- One could presumably drive oneself to distraction in this way.†
Chpt 3e -
- No doubt, too, my present mood is not unconnected with the fact that tomorrow — provided I am supplied with petrol by the local garage, as the Taylors assure me I will be — I should arrive in Little Compton by lunch-time and will, presumably, see Miss Kenton again after all these years.†
Chpt 3e -
- I will, after all, take my leave of these people in the morning and presumably never encounter them again.
Chpt 3e - *
- On one side, the village square is visible; on the other, the rear garden, from which this establishment presumably takes its name.†
Chpt 4a -
- I looked forward to the visit not only because visitors from Lord Darlington's days are most rare now — Mr Farraday's circle, naturally, being quite different from his lordship's — but also because I presumed Mr Graham would accompany Sir James as of old, and I would thus be able to get his opinion on this question of bantering.†
Chpt Prol.
- You will not dispute, I presume, that Mr Marshall of Charleville House and Mr Lane of Bridewood have been the two great butlers of recent times.†
Chpt 1e -
- You will appreciate then that in the event of Miss Kenton bursting in at a time when I had presumed, not unreasonably, that I was to be alone, it came to be a crucial matter of principle, a matter indeed of dignity, that I did not appear in anything less than my full and proper role.†
Chpt 3e -
- It is, in any case, absurd that anyone should presume to define a person's 'dignity' in these terms.†
Chpt 3e -
- Really, Mrs Benn, I would hardly presume...†
Chpt 6e -
Definitions:
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(1)
(presume as in: presumption of innocence) to think of something as true or likely, even though it is not known with certaintySomething can be presumed because it seems reasonable or because there is a rule or law demanding such an assumption. For example, in the United States someone charged with a crime is presumed by law to be innocent unless they are proven guilty at a trial.
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(2)
(presumptuous as in: she is presumptuous) exercising privileges to which one is not entitled -- such as being too familiar or too bossy