presuminglyadv.
/prᵻˈzjuːmɪŋli/, U.S. /priˈz(j)umɪŋli/, /prəˈz(j)umɪŋli/ Now rare.
Presumptuously.
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the mind > emotion > pride > overweening or presumption > [adverb]
jollily13..
presumptuouslyc1425
presumptiouslya1500
presumantlyc1536
presumingly1599
overweeningly1611
arrogatingly1652
overcomingly1653
presumptorily1681
assumingly1839
hubristically1907
1599 J. Weever Epigrammes sig. G4v Gerard, among the labours of my quill, Which my glad Muse presumingly hath writ.
1608 S. Hieron Helpe vnto Deuotion in Wks. (1620) I. 697 Grant that I may not bee presuminglie secure touching mine owne estate.
1668 H. P. Cressy Church-hist. Brittany xvii. 483 Who, having despised the principall Statuts and ordinances of his Church, can presumingly expect to enter with ioy through the gate of the heavenly Paradise?
1785 J. Hartley Hist. Westm. Election (ed. 2) 290 What are his political qualifications, that he should so presumingly step forward to contend the point.
1798 Theopha II. 141 Shrinking from my grasp, as if feeling she had acted too presumingly, she sunk at my feet.
1827 C. M. Sedgwick Hope Leslie I. iii. 61 It hath been (I say it not presumingly) nurtured with a mother's tears and prayers.
1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders III. xiii. 258 He saw that she was not yet out of the elusive mood; not yet to be treated presumingly.
1916 Lincoln (Nebraska) Daily Star 15 Oct. 5/2 Oftimes it seems presumingly bumptious to attempt to solve one of the problems which comes to my desk.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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