The act of venturing beyond due beyond due bounds; an overstepping of the bounds of reverence, respect, or courtesy; forward, overconfident, or arrogant opinion or conduct; presumptuousness; arrogance; effrontery
Ground for presuming; evidence probable, but not conclusive; strong probability; reasonable supposition; as, the presumption is that an event has taken place
a kind of discourtesy in the form of an act of presuming; "his presumption was intolerable" audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to; "he despised them for their presumptuousness" (law) an inference of the truth of a fact from other facts proved or admitted or judicially noticed
An inference or assumption that a fact exists, based on the known or proven existence of some other fact or group of facts Most presumptions are rules of evidence calling for a certain result in a given case unless the adversely affected party overcomes the presumption with other evidence For example, the Act's exception for personal privacy sets out particular types of personal information the disclosure of which is "presumed" to be an unreasonable invasion of a third party's personal privacy
a rule of law which allows the finding of one fact from the presentation of another fact shown, an irrebuttable presumption requires a finding of the presumed fact
A sin against hope, by which a person striving for salvation (1) either relies too much on his own capabilities or (2) expects God to do things which he cannot do, in keeping with his divine attributes, or does not will to do, according to his divine plan Presumption is the opposite of despair
A rule of law that courts and judges shall draw a particular inference from a particular fact, or from particular evidence, unless and until the truth of such inference is disproved
A presumption is something that is accepted as true but is not certain to be true. the presumption that a defendant is innocent until proved guilty = assumption
disapproval If you describe someone's behaviour as presumption, you disapprove of it because they are doing something that they have no right to do. They were angered by his presumption
A presumption is a rule of law, statutory or juridical, by which finding of a basic fact gives rise to existence of presumed fact, until presumption is rebutted