Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who presumes; an arrogant or presumptuous person.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who presumes; also, an arrogant person.

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  • noun One who presumes, especially in an arrogant way.

Etymologies

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presume +‎ -er

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Examples

  • Then could she look about her, as her sister had done before: then was she again brought to herself, and to a resolution to assert her authority [not to transfer it, witty presumer!] over the rebel, who of late has so ungratefully struggled to throw it off.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • The which having discovered, Saint Patrick, afflicting the presumer with the affliction of penance sufficiently severe, foretold that through all his life he should suffer the want of bread.

    The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings Various

  • [464] C'est pourquoi nous tenons ce fondement ferme ` a jamais, donnant toute gloire ` a Dieu, [465] en nous humiliant et reconnaissant tels que nous sommes, sans rien presumer de nous memes ni de nos merites, [466] et nous nous appuyons et reposons en la seule obeissance de Christ crucifie; [467] laquelle est notre, quand nous croyons en lui.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Continuation j'espere qu'il ne m'en aura rien fait perdre: j'ose meme presumer Encore asses pour me flater qu'une Longue absence que je projette par raison et par une necessite absolue, ne m'efacera pas totalement de votre souvenir; Daigne Le Conserver, Madame a quelquun qui n'en est pas indigne et qui cherchera toujours a Le meriter par son tendre et respectueux attachement -- a Paris Le 12 May, 1750. '

    Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles Andrew Lang 1878

  • Il est a presumer que ce langage, tenu avec energie, en imposera a l'audace des Anglomanes, et que Monsieur le Prince de Nassau croira courir quelque risque en provoquant le ressentiment de sa Majeste. '

    Memoir Correspondence And Miscellanies Jefferson, Thomas 1829

  • Il est 'a presumer que ce langage, tenu avec energie, en imposera 'a l'audace Des Anglomanes, et que Monsieur le Prince de Nassau croira courir quelque risque en provoquantle ressentiment de sa Majeste.

    Autobiography 1821

  • Some times I am apprehensive of being too early in the disclosure of my sentiments; but my fear that delay should give an opportunity for some more resolute, and perhaps less-truly adoring presumer to succeed, impels me to urge to you my wishes; leaving the time and manner of further proceedings to your friendly direction.

    Vicissitudes in Genteel Life 1794

  • Il est á presumer que ce langage, tenu avec énergie, en imposera á l'audace des Anglomanes, et que Monsieur le Prince de Nassau croira courir quelque risque en provoquant le ressentiment de sa Majesté. '

    Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 Thomas Jefferson 1784

  • -- Then could she look about her, as her sister had done before: then was she again brought to herself, and to a resolution to assert her authority [not to transfer it, witty presumer!] over the rebel, who of late has so ungratefully struggled to throw it off.

    Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 Samuel Richardson 1725

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