presumption

Definition

  • noun: a belief that something is true even though it has not been proved
  • noun: 'presumptuous' attitude or conduct
  • often + 'that'
  • synonyms: adventurousness, allegory, allusion

Examples

  • You don't know anything about my situation, and yet you have the 'presumption' [=(more commonly) 'gall, nerve'] to tell me what to do!

  • Thousands of people used this drug 'on the presumption that' it was safe. [=they used it because they believed that it was safe]

  • The trial was unfair from the beginning because there was no 'presumption of' innocence.

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