surmise
verb (used with object)
to think or infer without certain or strong evidence; conjecture; guess.
unsurmised
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a word derived from
surmise.
Example Sentences
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And, though he declined to give his reasons for declining, yet by those who best knew him the cause was not wholly unsurmised.
From The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville
It does not always follow that the course the father prescribes is the best one in the end, for sometimes a boy develops in unsurmised directions; and this was the case with Amerigo Vespucci.
From Amerigo Vespucci by Frederick Albion Ober
So much more effectual for harm are dangers unsurmised; and chance sometimes makes the less alarming evil worse than that which threatens.
From The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo
So that three horns rang out on that afternoon without awakening more than a passing wonder “who it might be;” and when an unusual commotion was heard in the guard-room, the cause remained unsurmised.
From The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time by Emily Sarah Holt
Sometimes the first impression would yield only a paragraph or a sentence, and once or twice but a splendid and sonorous word, which seemed to Lucian all dim and rich with unsurmised adventure.
From The Hill of Dreams by Arthur Machen
