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Presumably
- adverb - by reasonable assumption; "presumably, he missed the train"
Presuppose
- verb - require as a necessary antecedent or precondition; "This step presupposes two prior ones"
- take for granted or as a given; suppose beforehand; "I presuppose that you have done your work"
Presurmise
- - A surmise previously formed.
Pretendant
- - A pretender; a claimant.
Pretenders
- noun - a claimant to the throne or to the office of ruler (usually without just title)
- a person who makes deceitful pretenses
- a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives
Pretending
- verb - behave unnaturally or affectedly; "She's just acting"
- make believe with the intent to deceive;
- put forward a claim and assert right or possession of; "pretend the title of King"
- put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation; "I am guessing that the price of real estate will rise again"; "I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong"
- represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like; "She makes like an actress"
- state insincerely; "He professed innocence but later admitted his guilt"; "She pretended not to have known the suicide bomber"; "She pretends to be an expert on wine"
- the act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was only pretending"
Pretension
- noun - a false or unsupportable quality
- the advancing of a claim; "his pretension to the crown"; "the town still puts forward pretensions as a famous resort"
- the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)
Preterient
- - Passed through; antecedent; previous; as, preterient states.
Preterists
- noun - a theologian who believes that the Scripture prophecies of the Apocalypse (the Book of Revelation) have already been fulfilled