Arrogation
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Arrogation is a noun meaning (law) The unjust assumption of rights or privilege.
Meaning
(law) The unjust assumption of rights or privilege.
Example Sentences
The President's arrogation of this new Act oversteps his bounds and causes our rights to suffer.
It condescended and/or pandered to so many for so long that even its old suburbanite subscribers must have begrudged it deep down, and those New Yorkers who know it love to hate it outright – for the arrogation of its New York as the New York, among other crimes: who are those people in the cartoons anyway?
Word Forms
- arrogations
Synonyms for arrogation
Depending on context, synonyms include confiscation.
Antonyms for arrogation
Common opposites include abandonment.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include confiscation, subrogation, claim, assumpsit, attribution, avowant.
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