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suppose

verb allude to, anticipate, assume, believe, be of the opinion, calculate, conceive, conclude, conjecture, consider, deduce, deduct, deem, estimate, expect, feel, gather, gauge, generalize, guess, hint, hypothesize, imagine, imply, infer, insinuate, intimate, judge, opine, posit, presume, presuppose, propose, propound, reason, speculate, surmise, suspect, take for granted, theorize, understand, view

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A doubt of her regard, supposing him to feel it, need not give him more than inquietude.

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I was actually permitting myself to experience a sickening sense of disappointment; but rallying my wits, and recollecting my principles, I at once called my sensations to order; and it was wonderful how I got over the temporary blunder--how I cleared up the mistake of supposing Mr.

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She, supposing Edgar could not see her, snatched the cloth from my hand, and pinched me, with a prolonged wrench, very spitefully on the arm.