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Examples of arrogate
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You arrogate knowledge to yourself that you don't demonstrate you have.
From the independent.co.uk
To arrogate is to attempt to take on a right or responsibility to which one is not entitled.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Why do you arrogate to yourself that choice when it was my post?
From the economist.com
Once human beings arrogate to themselves such decisions, money itself cannot help but be distorted.
From the infowars.com
Uh-uh, said the liberal Supremes, trumping the lower courts, we're going to arrogate this power to the judiciary.
From the denverpost.com
It's just that these people arrogate to themselves the role of perfect I think these people think they're fortune tellers or gods.
From the guardian.co.uk
If anyone shall dare act contrary to this and arrogate to himself the power belonging to the bishop, let him be expelled from the Church.
From the en.wikipedia.org
We would now condemn such people, above all, because who are they to arrogate to themselves the right to over-ride this man's own self-description of his experience?
From the economist.com
If therefore any prince or other layman shall arrogate to himself the right of disposition, control, or ownership of ecclesiastical goods or properties, let him be judged guilty of sacrilege.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- Claim: demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to; "He claimed his suitcases at the airline counter"; "Mr. Smith claims special tax exemptions because he is a foreign resident"
- Make undue claims to having
- Assume: seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession; "He assumed to himself the right to fill all positions in the town"; "he usurped my rights"; "She seized control of the throne after her husband died"
- (arrogation) confiscation: seizure by the government
- This is a list of English words which are commonly misused. It is meant to include only words whose misuse is deprecated by most usage writers, editors, and other professional linguists of Standard English. ...
- To appropriate or lay claim to something for oneself without right
- (arrogation) The unjust assumption of rights or privilege
- (Arrogation) Claiming or seizing something without justification; claiming something on behalf of another. In CIVIL LAW, the ADOPTION of an adult who was legally capable of acting for himself or herself.
- (v.) to take without justification (The king arrogated the right to order executions to himself exclusively.)
