Both Uses of
surmise
in
A Prayer for Owen Meany
- rapture of so much amateur conjecturing and surmising would flush their faces as irrepressibly as blood!†
p. 435.9 *
- But as incapable as he was of a heartfelt response to a real situation, the Rev. Mr. Merrill was tirelessly capable of thinking; he pondered and brooded and surmised and second-guessed my mother to death.†
p. 555.9
Definition:
to guess something is true or form an opinion based on incomplete evidence