Meanings (ES + gloss)
dar por hecho • dar por sentado • dar por supuesto • tomar por sentado
To assume something to be true without verification or proof.
Let it be considered a delicate intimation on the part of the historian that he is going back to the town in which Oliver Twist was born; the reader taking it for granted that ther…
dar por descontado • dar por hecho • dar por sentado • menospreciar • no valorar • subestimar • tomar por sentado
To give little attention to or to underestimate the value of; to fail to appreciate, especially something one has grown heavily accustomed to; not to value or care for appropriately, out of the assumption that the person or thing not valued cannot be lost.
He had fiercely championed loveless ladies entering frustrated middle age, the married woman whose husband took her for granted and seldom into his arms.
These great First Truths, these good and gracious Tidings, these holy and humanizing Spells, in the preconformity to which our very humanity may be said to consist, are so infused,…
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