Definition for PRE-SUMP'TU-OUS-LY

PRE-SUMP'TU-OUS-LY, adv.

  1. With rush confidence.
  2. Arrogantly; insolently.
  3. Willfully; bold defiance of conscience or violation of known duty; as, to sin presumptuously. – Num. xv.
  4. With groundless and vain confidence in the divine favor. – Hammond.

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