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from The Century Dictionary.

  • As may be presumed or reasonably supposed; by or according to presumption; by legitimate inference from facts or circumstances.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a presumable manner; by, or according to, presumption.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb Able to be sensibly presumed.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb by reasonable assumption

Etymologies

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presume +‎ -ably

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