presupposedly
Definitions
In a presupposed manner.
Examples
“The Salinas Index notices a controversy in progress⟳ at Pacific Grove that threatens to rent⟳ asunder the usual harmony that has presupposedly reigned there.”
“However, the solemn vow of ordination, like⟳ the divine call⟳, upon which it is presupposedly founded, is for the whole life, and can not, therefore, be laid aside for trifling considerations or secular interests.”
“In every State, it is true, there is a Surgeon-General, who is presupposedly the head of such a department as the Surgeon-General of the Army is chief of the medical corps of the Army, and a Surgeon-General of the Navy, who is the chief of the bureau of medicine and surgery of the Navy Department, but is the Surgeon-General of Maryland, or Virginia, or Ohio, or Georgia ever titular head of the medical department of the National Guard of these States?”
“The art of founding has now been studied from its metallurgical side sufficiently to allow⟳ us to make⟳ a mixture with the reasonable assurance that the requirements will be met (the molding conditions, as we may term them, being presupposedly correct⟳) barring only two factors.”
“Yet we saw⟳ a woman’s footprints, presupposedly hers, in the clay of the avenue drain, which must have⟳ been made after enough rain⟳ had fallen to soften it.”
“Treating the matter⟳ as a question⟳ of tort liability, attention is focused on such practical and concrete problems as "the necessity of actual damage⟳," "the reasonable or unreasonable character of the defendant's conduct in view⟳ of all the circumstances," and "the relative value of the interests involved," rather than on the limitations and qualifications of a categorical "right" or "servitude" presupposedly assumed and ill-defined.”
“He presupposedly has the credentials of a scholar but it was scarcely the act of a gentleman.”
“What mattered to Hegel, and now Leach, is a presupposedly, historically necessary evolution in the structure⟳ of political power, entailing the creation of new classes of powerless victims to be sacrificed on the altar of abstract ideological concepts (i.e., “choice”).”
CEFR level
C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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