surmission
surmission noun: an act of surmising; a guess or conjecture.
Noun
surmission (plural surmissions)
- An act of surmising; a guess or conjecture.
- “I merely took a little stomach bitters for the stomach's sake only. I had a surmission you might think something wrong, and have been looking for you, to explain.”1901, Francina Scott, The Romance of a Trained Nurse, New York: Cooke & Fry, →OCLC, page 185
- Of the additions roughly 50% are translations of Semitic language works (attributed as such either by surmission based on language or through discovery of lost originals).1992 October 13, dho...@cbrown.claremont.edu, “koine = new testament?”, in sci.classics (Usenet)
Examples of surmission in a sentence
- If your surmission is correct, and the lights are low to encourage psychological warmth, then this still saves power by necessitating less heating.1996, Martin Booth, Adrift in the Oceans of Mercy, London: Simon & Schuster Ltd, →ISBN, page 169:
- No, that's just another one of your pull it out of your butt surmissions, you have no way of knowing what he did or did not do, and I refuse to come anywhere near a thought process that polluted.2000 July 1, ou812, “Lock and Load! (fwd)”, in or.general (Usenet):
- “The lesson of history instructs us in the path of the future.’ I sounded like one of my recent professors, pedantic but confident in my surmission.2003, Martin Booth, Islands of Silence, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN, page 39:
Forms of surmission
| plural | surmissions |
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Origin of surmission
From surmise + -sion, likely from the assumption that surmise cannot be used as a noun.
Questions about surmission
- What does surmission mean?
- Surmission means an act of surmising; a guess or conjecture.
- How do you use surmission in a sentence?
- If your surmission is correct, and the lights are low to encourage psychological warmth, then this still saves power by necessitating less heating.
- What part of speech is surmission?
- Surmission is a noun.
- What is the plural of surmission?
- The plural of surmission is surmissions.
Words near surmission in the dictionary
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