surmise
/sɚˈmaɪz/ verbe C2En français : présumer, supposer, suspecter
- To imagine or suspect; to conjecture; to posit with contestable premises. · If, as I surmise, you see the ladies this evening, you might mention my intended visit.
He/she/it surmises · Prétérit surmised · Participe passé surmised · Forme en -ing surmising
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Dans la bibliothèque
This part of his intelligence, though unheard by Lydia, was caught by Elizabeth; and, as it assured her that Darcy was not less answerable for Wickham’s absence than if her first surmise had been just, every feeling of displeasure against the former was so sharpened by immediate disappointment, that she could hardly reply with tolerable civility to the polite inquiries which he directly afterwards approached to make.
“That is not an unnatural surmise,” said Fitzwilliam; “but it is lessening the honour of my cousin’s triumph very sadly.”
“‘Ah, that is a question that will take some time to answer.’ And with that I sketched out to him the whole long chain of surmise and of proof which I had constructed.
I am, as you have no doubt surmised, endeavouring to trace these busts to their source, in order to find if there is not something peculiar which may account for their remarkable fate.
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