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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