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Meanings of Assumption in English
Catalan
presumptuositat Audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to.
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Examples for "presumption"
Examples for "presumption"
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The most basic tenet of American law is the presumption of innocence.
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It also maintained and took good advantage of the presumption of guilt.
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The presumption did not breed fear; it bred wrath, hot and vindictive.
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Such presumption was the natural cause and forerunner of a shameful defeat.
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I feel there should be a presumption of risk until proven otherwise.
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It seemed to abash the ruffian, in spite of his habitual effrontery.
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For a moment, the Venerable Parakarma seemed taken aback at such effrontery.
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The cynicism and effrontery of young girls regarding marriage particularly revolted her.
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Momentarily her effrontery had given the situation into her hands-butonly momentarily.
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He had not expected opposition and such effrontery was new to him.
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Then a horror seized him at the presumptuousness of the liberty he had taken.
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Had he been punished for his presumptuousness, for his arrogance?
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Thus doth the master give free scope to his slaves, and even enjoyeth their presumptuousness.
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He laughed with bitter irony at his own presumptuousness.
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Moreover, I perceived the presumptuousness of assuming a superior air towards an established and accepted institution.
Portuguese
15 de agosto Catalan
assumpció 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.
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The scene is laid in Calabria during the Feast of the Assumption.
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Much like Schongau, the Church of the Assumption had seen better days.
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This fiscal manoeuvre is well known by the name of the Assumption.
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We now proceed to other examples of the treatment of the Assumption.
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The fourteenth chapel, the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, is without interest.
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Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Assumption in Tashkent.
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We were due at the Assumption church in Walkinstown at five o'clock.
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The Feast of her Assumption is next Friday, big day in Knock.
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The Assumption of the Virgin had not been seen in Europe since 1904.
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Thou knowest the print of Murillo's Assumption; the picture is in the Louvre.
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Another is in the sacristy of the church of the Assumption at Moscow.
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In the highest and largest compartment, the Death and Assumption of the Virgin.
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They're calling it 'Re-evaluating the Assumptions of the Past: Truth or Conspiracy'?
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It means some assumptions about housing costs may no longer be true.
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And it's always good to be forced to question our own assumptions.
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For the very good reason that the basic assumption held the opposite.
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