Presumptuous
Bible Usage:
- presumptuous used twice.
- presumptuously used 6 times.
- First Reference: Psalms 19:13
- Last Reference: 2 Peter 2:10
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
PRESUMP'TUOUS, adjective
1. Bold and confident to excess; adventuring without reasonable ground of success; hazarding safety on too slight grounds; rash; applied to persons; as a presumptuous commander.
There is a class of presumptuous men whom age has not made cautious, nor adversity wise.
2. Founded on presumption; proceeding from excess of confidence; applied to things; as presumptuous hope.
3. Arrogant; insolent; as a presumptuous priest.
Presumptuous pride.
4. Unduly confident; irreverent with respect to sacred things.
5. Willful; done with bold design, rash confidence or in violation of known duty; as a presumptuous sin.
PRESUMP'TUOUSLY, adverb With rash confidence.
1. Arrogantly; insolently.
2. Willfully; in bold defiance of conscience or violation of known duty; as, to sin presumptuously Numbers 15:30.
3. With groundless and vain confidence in the divine favor.
PRESUMP'TUOUSNESS, noun The quality of being presumptuous or rashly confident; groundless confidence; arrogance; irreverent boldness or forwardness.