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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Presumptuouslie, adv. Also: -uusly, -uoslie, -ously, -lie, -wslye. [ME (Piers Plowman) and e.m.E. presumptuowsly, -uously: cf. Presumpti(o)uslie.] Presumptuously, overweeningly, arrogantly, forwardly.(a) a1500 Bernardus 249.
That seruande … The quhilk … argewis nocht agane presumptuusly 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. 669 (L).
Thou … Presumptuusly [E. presumpteouslie] now … My lady here blasphemed in thy ryme 1533 Boece 134 b.
Scottis, Pichtis [etc.] … presumptuoslie gloring [L. superbe exultantes] that … thai had occasioun … to discumfis Romanis 1568 Hosack Mary Q. of Scots I 546.
That tyran quha sa presumptuouslie had interprisit to reveis … hir 1571 Bann. Memor. 153.
Presumptuouslie [Trans. presumpteouslie](b) c1520-c1535 Nisbet III 338/27.
Presumptwslye a1578 Pitsc. II 143/14.
They cairit not Christ … bot presumptouslie caist thame to thair awin libertie and the popis conditiouns 1704 Edinb. Univ. Chart. 153.
The word facultie which they had presumptously assumed to themselves
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