præsumptuous

A form of presumptuous — Making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions, often out of arrogance or excessive self-confidence, and thus exceeding appropriate or rightful limits.

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adjectivepræsumptuous (comparative more præsumptuous, superlative most præsumptuous)

comparative more præsumptuous · superlative most præsumptuous

  1. archaicArchaic spelling of presumptuous.

    19. Præsumptuous violators or contemners of the sabbath or holie exercises /.

    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, 0415319897)
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