Meaning of Arrogation | Babel Free
Definitions
The unjust assumption of rights or privilege.
countable, uncountable
Examples
“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?”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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