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assumption
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Noun
  • the act of assuming or taking for granted
    • your assumption that I would agree was unwarranted
  • audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to
    • he despised them for their presumptuousness
  • (Christianity) the taking up of the body and soul of the Virgin Mary when her earthly life had ended
  • celebration in the Roman Catholic Church of the Virgin Mary's being taken up into heaven when her earthly life ended; corresponds to the Dormition in the Eastern Orthodox Church
  • the act of taking possession of or power over something
    • his assumption of office coincided with the trouble in Cuba
    • the Nazi assumption of power in 1934
    • he acquired all the company's assets for ten million dollars and the assumption of the company's debts
  • a hypothesis that is taken for granted
    • any society is built upon certain assumptions
  • a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn
    • on the assumption that he has been injured we can infer that he will not to play
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