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1661 J. Davies tr. D. Blondel Treat. Sibyls i. xx. 52 For this Discourse was an earnest Charge against the Christians, concerning the Suppositiousness of the Eight Books.

1780 H. Croft Love & Madness (new ed.) 209 If C. thought them to be the same, C. is an original in poetry only, not in suppositiousness.

1820 Ladies' Monthly Museum Aug. 102 After a trial of considerable length, the suppositiousness of the child was completely established.

1862 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 7 122 Suppositious tradition must not be reported by one who is aware of its character, let it signify what it may, unless accompanied with a declaration of its suppositiousness.

1978 Amer. Hist. Rev. 83 720/1 The hollowness of the Whigs' subterfuge of James II's abdication, the suppositiousness of popular right, and of course, the eternal ‘Church in Danger’ issue.

1983 Paris (Texas) News 6 Jan. 2/1 The uncertain status of the inclusion of recreation..as a project purpose, lends an air of suppositiousness to the Corps' claims of tremendous recreational benefits in this project.

2002 H. M. Ravven & L. E. Goodman Jewish Themes in Spinoza's Philos. 56 Spinoza is urging bootstrapping, but he avoids suppositiousness by acknowledging an a priori element, pure ideas, stemming ultimately from the purest, the idea of God.