Meanings
- rareuncountableThe state of being presumptuous.
Preſuntuoſità, ſ. f. preſumptuoſity, présomption
[1791, Nuovo Dizionario Portatile Italiano, Inglese, e Francese, Composto sopra i Dizionarj delle Accademie della Crusca, di Francia, e del D. Johnson, da F. Bottarelli A. M., 2nd edition, Nizza: Presso la Societa’ Tipografica, page 394, column 15 more examples
PRESUMPTUOSITY, [præſumptuoſitas, L.] Preſumptuouſneſs.
[1721, N[athan] Bailey, “PRESUMPTUOSITY”, in An Universal Etymological English Dictionary: […], London: […] E. Bell, J. Darby, […], →OCLC, column 2PRESUNTUOSITA, PRESUNTUOSITADE, PRESUNTUOSITATE, } s. f. (presunzione) presumptuosity, presumptuosness,^([sic]) haughtiness, boldness.
[1816, Dizionario Italiano, ed Inglese, page 351, column 1Preſumptuousneſs, or, preſumptuoſity [pri-zum´-sjus-nis, pri-zum´-tu-os-ſi-ti] (s.) Vermételbeid.
[1823, John Holtrop’s English and Dutch Dictionary, page 646, column 1Popery is overrun by absurdity and presumptuosity, by superstition and idolatry, and by other evils many and great.
1842, John Rogers, “Popery in General”, in Anti-Popery; or, Popery Unreasonable, Unscriptural, and Novel, 3rd edition, London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.; Hatchard and Son; […], section I (An account of popery), subsection II (A character of popery, particularly as persecutive), page 33“I must say without presumptuosity that that’s all my work. The Captain left all the management of the company to me.”
1904 March 24, “Si Klegg, Shorty and their Comrades in the days “When Johnny Came Marching Home.””, in The National Tribune, volume XXIII, number 25 (whole 1180), Washington, D.C., page 4Synonyms: presumptuousness
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe state of being presumptuous.
Origin
From presumptu(ous) + -osity. Compare Middle English presomtweste, Middle French presumptuouseté, and Latin praesūmptuōsitās.
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