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Definition of Guessings
1. guessing [n] - See also: guessing
Lexicographical Neighbors of Guessings
Literary usage of Guessings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1846)
"... not deduced from facts must be regarded as hypothesis," but hypothesis appears
to us a title too honourable for the crude guessings to which we allude. ..."
2. The Phenomena of Spiritualism Scientifically Explained and Exposed by Asa Mahan (1876)
"As these responses have no other characteristics than vain imaginings or imprudent
guessings, we are bound by all the principles of logical integrity to ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1900)
"Out of my boyish guessings as to what I would do were things that we know other
than what they seem, or were things we know not clear before our eyes, ..."
4. The Camden Miscellany by Camden Society (Great Britain), Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) (1907)
"... are as just as your guessings, for men grow calm again, but retain their
disposition still to be inflam'd again with every spark that is blown about, ..."
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