Arrogative

Quick meaning: Arrogative is an adjective meaning Making undue claims and pretensions; prone to arrogance.

Meaning

Making undue claims and pretensions; prone to arrogance.

More Meanings

1. Involving a claim or demand, as opposed to something bestowed or given.
2. (linguistics) Exhibiting scope arrogation; expanding the scope of a word to refer to more of a sentence than the minimal possibility.

Example Sentences

And he does so in order to counterbalance the arrogative human assumption of being among living creatures the only creature with a rational soul.

Proper – property – appropriate: signally an emphasis on self-identity, self-aggrandizement and arrogative dominance, these words aptly characterize the logic of the proper according to Cixous.

Life is finally loose, one could say, liberated from its social constrains and sincere in its necessities, its insistence and its arrogative demands, but McCarthy also reveals the implications of life's liberation and, by the same token, unmasks any misplaced romanticisations regarding its disavowal in the polis:

Yet pace Arendt, strictly speaking, political action as freedom applies only to the moment of arrogative creation and initiation. For although the ur- political act is in one sense unconstrained and willed, it is simultaneously unavoidable, and its enactment does not guarantee the subsequent freedom Arendt aimed at.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include arrogant, presumptuous, overweening, presumptious, overhaughty, uppity.

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