Meaning of presumptuosity | Babel Free

Definitions

The state of being presumptuous.

rare, uncountable

Examples

“PRESUMPTUOSITY, [præſumptuoſitas, L.] Preſumptuouſneſs.”

“Preſuntuoſità, ſ. f. preſumptuoſity, présomption”

“PRESUNTUOSITA, PRESUNTUOSITADE, PRESUNTUOSITATE, } s. f. (presunzione) presumptuosity, presumptuosness,^([sic]) haughtiness, boldness.”

“Preſumptuousneſs, or, preſumptuoſity [pri-zum´-sjus-nis, pri-zum´-tu-os-ſi-ti] (s.) Vermételbeid.”

“Popery is overrun by absurdity and presumptuosity, by superstition and idolatry, and by other evils many and great.”

““I must say without presumptuosity that that’s all my work. The Captain left all the management of the company to me.””

“It is certain that the Lily, not without a certain distinct presumptuosity for which she still is famous, “introduced” Gebhard to the Prince of Wales, afterward King Edward, on a certain occasion when the three accidentally came together in Biarritz;”

“And everywhere he provokes annoyed laughter by his mannerisms in dress and behavior, by his insufferable “presumptuosity” and callow immaturity, and everywhere, he also radiates charm by his youthful fire, his scintillating talent, the almost physically palpable , galvanic force of his animal spirits—and all of it tempered by the indescribable naivete and good nature of a nice, perhaps slightly pampered but well-meaning youth.”

“A distinction is made between subjects who refuse to work because of a lack of impulse (asthenia, cenaesthopathy, abulia, indifference) and those who refuse to work because of their exaggerated sense of self-importance (presumptuosity, histrionicism, mythomania).”

“>Oh, yeah, we also got a Trinity Joyce wannabe. / Mark him, with his presumptuosity! No no. I wanna be D.H. Lawrence, 'cept with more lesbians. And some car chases.”

“>I am wholly incorruptible / > / >Michael / > / >(e-mail me privately and tell me how much you'll pay me) / > / >IN THE BILLIARDS ROOM WITH BOHO / Who said anything about bribes? I'm utterly appalled at your presumptuosity!”

“] The customer must not, in payment, issue cheques totalling / ] more than L500 on any single day. / ] / ] This says what the two examples say but avoids their employment of / ] telegraphese. / But perhaps drifting from telegraphese into presumptuosity. How about: Customers may of course issue all the cheques they want, but our policy does not permit us to honour cheques for more than 500 GBP per customer per day. We regret any inconvenience that this policy may cause.”

“>A friend of mine told a story that on her first date with the man she / >later married, he went through her spice cabinet and tossed everything / >that he thought was too old. They've been married for over 15 years... / Phew. Some people have a higher tolerance for presumptuosity than others, I guess. I allus thunk it was kind of a social norm that the spice cabinet is a private fiefdom, not to be messed with however good the reasons.”

“> >Andy the Sane / > >(or should that be "The Sane Andy"?) / > / > No - it shouldn't (don't be so presumptuous). / > / > Adjectives must be *earned*. :-} / > / Fair enough ;) I frequently get over indulgent with my presumptuosity”

“Also, as is well known, Bessarion’s teacher at Mystra during the early 1430s had been the celebrated Giorgios Gemistos (ca. 1355-1452), who in 1439 had also adopted another “name”, Plethon (Πλεθων), apparently with the arguments that the sounds of the name of the great Plato (Πλατων) were embedded in it yet avoiding the presumptuosity of adopting the great philosopher’s actual name.”

“Just as "I could care _less_" asserts the irrelevance of any level of caring to what follows, "Can I get" lets you run through the objections to the presumptuosity of a bald "May I have" before considering it.”

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