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præsumptuous

præsumptuous

English

Adjective

præsumptuous (comparative more præsumptuous, superlative most præsumptuous)

  1. Archaic spelling of presumptuous.
    • ante 1588: Thomas Cartwright (probably), A Reproofe of Certeine Schismatical Persons, in Cartwrightiana (1951; edited by Albert Peel and Leland Henry Carlson), page 244 (George Allen & Unwin Ltd., Routledge; ISBN 0415319889, 0415319897)
      19. Præsumptuous violators or contemners of the sabbath or holie exercises /.