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#presumptive /prĭ-zŭmp′tĭv/
adjective
Based on a presumption; presumed.
"the party's presumptive nominee."
Providing a reasonable basis for belief or acceptance.
"presumptive evidence."
Presumptuous.
"presumptive behavior."
Based on presumption or probability; grounded on probable evidence; probable.
"presumptive proof"
Similar: probable
Presumptuous; arrogant.
Similar: #presumptuous arrogant
That which is derived from circumstances which necessarily or usually attend a fact, as distinct from direct evidence or positive proof; indirect or circumstantial evidence. “Presumptive evidence of felony should be cautiously admitted.” Blackstone. The distinction, however, between direct and presumptive (or circumstantial) evidence is now generally abandoned; all evidence being now more or less direct and more or less presumptive.
See Heir presumptive, under Heir.
Based on presumption, probability, conjecture, hypothesis or belief.
Making presumptions; behaving as one who presumes, who assumes that which they perhaps shouldn't.

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“Arthwait was in the fetters of his own egoism; while he pronounced himself father and grandfather of all spiritual science, in language that would have seemed stilted and archaic to Henry James, or Osric, and presumptuous in the mouth of an archangel … He wanted to evoke the devil, but was terrified lest he should be successful. However, nobody could be more pedantically pious than he in following out the practical prescriptions of these absurd charm-books.”

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