premise
noun
Also premiss. a proposition supporting or helping to support a conclusion.
was premising
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past progressiveof premise.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The point of Mill's innovation was, premising that general names are not absolute but are applied in virtue of a meaning, to put emphasis on this meaning as the cardinal consideration.
From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by William Minto
