Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PRE-SUMP'TU-OUS-LY
PRE-SUMP'TU-OUSPRE-SUMP'TU-OUS-NESS
PRE-SUMP'TU-OUS-LY, adv.
- With rush confidence.
- Arrogantly; insolently.
- Willfully; bold defiance of conscience or violation of known duty; as, to sin presumptuously. – Num. xv.
- With groundless and vain confidence in the divine favor. – Hammond.
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