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Arrogation

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

The unjust assumption of rights or privilege.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Françaisarrogation
DeutschAnmaßung
Portuguêsarrogação
2 more languages
العربيةالادّعاء

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.
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