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Definition of Presumable
1. Adjective. Capable of being inferred on slight grounds.
Definition of Presumable
1. a. Such as may be presumed or supposed to be true; that seems entitled to belief without direct evidence.
Definition of Presumable
1. Adjective. Of things capable of being presumed. ¹
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Definition of Presumable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Presumable
Literary usage of Presumable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Oscar Wilde, an Idler's Impression by Edgar Saltus (1917)
"Yet though he saw it, it is presumable that he forgot it. It is presumable that
the grace which was his in prison departed in Paris. ..."
2. Selected Cases on the Law of Property in Land by William Albert Finch (1904)
"The " reasonably presumable intent" in annexing, as inferred from the surrounding
circumstances. (i.) WHAT is MEANT BY " REASONABLY presumable INTENT. ..."
3. Rationale of Judicial Evidence, Specially Applied to English Practice by Jeremy Bentham (1827)
"SECTION V.—Affections of the Several proposed interrogators and respondents
towards each other, how far presumable. Such or such a person in the character ..."
4. Ten Years in Equatoria and the Return with Emin Pasha by Gaetano Casati (1891)
"... fifty starved to death—Marno the deliverer—Cause of the obstruction on the
Nile—Mehil and fula— Obstructions on the river Ghazal—presumable cause of the ..."
5. The Industrial Resources, Etc., of the Southern and Western States by James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow (1852)
"It ii presumable, therefore, from the known inertness of the Spanish character,
and the slight progress made by them in the settle* ment of new ..."
6. Commentaries on the Law of Private Corporations by Seymour Dwight Thompson (1895)
"Whether presumable In the Case of a Subscription to a Future Corporation. — But
caution should be exercised in accepting this doctrine in its application to ..."
7. The Foundations of England; Or, Twelve Centuries of British History (B.C. 55 by James Henry Ramsay (1898)
"... if used as it commonly is in the technical sense of fealty, would in itself
imply vassalage on the part of the Scottish Crown. presumable But ..."
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