🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

presunción

Pronunciation / Transliteration: presuncion

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Presumption/prɪˈzʌmp.ʃən/
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Actuó bajo la presunción de que todos sabían la verdad."

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1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    An idea that is taken to be true, and often used as the basis for other ideas, although it has not been proved.

    "There is a general presumption that the accused is innocent until proven guilty."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin praesumptio, meaning an taking beforehand or presupposition, stemming from praesumere (to take before, anticipate). Entering Middle English via Old French in the 14th century, it initially denoted arrogance or boldness before evolving into its primary modern legal and epistemic senses of assuming something as true.

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