Assumption is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ASSUMPTION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the taking up of a person into heaven
• a thing that is accepted as true or as certain to happen, without proof
• the action of taking on power or responsibility
• the reception of the Virgin Mary bodily into heaven. This was formally declared a doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church in 1950.
• the feast in honour of the Assumption, celebrated on 15 August.
• arrogance or presumption.
• The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one\'s self; the act of taking up or adopting.
• The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; supposition; unwarrantable claim.
• The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition.
• The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism.
• The taking of a person up into heaven.
• A festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin Mary into heaven.
• a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn
• a hypothesis that is taken for granted
• the act of taking possession of or power over something
• 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
• (Christianity) the taking up of the body and soul of the Virgin Mary when her earthly life had ended
• audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to
• the act of assuming or taking for granted
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the taking up of a person into heaven b capitalize; August 15 observed in commemoration of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary

Words related to ASSUMPTION

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Words that contain ASSUMPTION

assumptions15 reassumption16 misassumption19 reassumptions17 misassumptions20

How to use ASSUMPTION in a sentence

• In the same way they say that that which those other men call the assumption, and the proof of the assumption, appears to them to be assumption only.
• If it be necessary to say anything at all against so mere an assumption, we may say that the question depends upon what idea we have formed of the moral character of the Deity.
• He had begun life with the assumption that to be a New York Lanley was in itself enough, a comfortable creed in which many of his relations had obscurely lived and died.
• No one will thus dispute the assumption that, under certain circumstances, it is the moral and political duty of the State to employ war as a political means.
• The assumption that these masses would be available for the army in the moment of need is a delusion.
• I admire the look of it, I give no credit to the assumption.
• We fall in with the assumption, it seems, because we know very well that we are not directly conscious of a remote past and a remote future.
• Madame Gruget showed the assumption of semi-pauperism when she invited her visitor to warm himself.
• The logical force of the argument consists in dispensing with any violent assumption, and in showing that the principle of descent is adequate to explain the ascertained facts.
• Another naive claim is that every mouth that comes into the country brings with it two hands, the assumption being that there is necessarily work for the two hands.
• As far as the East is concerned we find in Origen no trace of the assumption of a repeated sacrifice of Christ.
• But on the other hand, even a calm reflection and a temper unfriendly to all religious excess must have welcomed the assumption of demons who sought to rule the world and man.
• Now of this assumption a Person is both the principle and the term.
• ASSUMPTION OF THE ENEMY When reliable information of the enemy cannot be obtained, it must be assumed that he has sense and will act with excellent judgment.
• But all signs go to prove the assumption of limited intellectual ability fundamentally false.
• And about the nature of that quest I make no facile assumption.
• The argument for a world government begins with the assumption that means should exist to deal with international issues before they reach an acute stage.
• Upon some such assumption, as upon an incontrovertible axiom, all historical narratives, from the chronicles of a parish to the annals of an empire, alike proceed.
• Lord Roberts laid his plans for the advance on the assumption that it would be in operation on his right flank when he reached Pretoria, and if L.
• Gladstone bases the assumption, which is essential to his case, that the possession of pigs and the calling of a swineherd were actually illegal.
• All these start from the assumption that it was erected in connection with the worship of the sun, or at least in order to take certain observations with regard to the sun.
• But, for the present, it cannot be much more than an assumption.
• The assumption is an affront to the intelligence of the ordinary reader of the Bible.
• I think that by adopting any such assumption as that of the honorable gentleman, we surrender the whole idea of treason and the punishment of traitors.

Similar words containing ASSUMP without suffix tion

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