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presuming

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pre·sum·ing  (pr-zmng)
adj.
Having or showing excessive and arrogant self-confidence; presumptuous.

pre·suming·ly adv.

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Chaste women are often proud and froward, as presuming upon the merit of their chastity.
If I might offer any apology for so exaggerated a fiction as the Barnacles and the Circumlocution Office, I would seek it in the common experience of an Englishman, without presuming to mention the unimportant fact of my having done that violence to good manners, in the days of a Russian war, and of a Court of Inquiry at Chelsea.
Franklin Blake, and in another breath she had been angry with Penelope for presuming to suppose that a strange gentleman could possess any interest for her.
 
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