Meanings
plural arrogations
- countableuncountablelawThe unjust assumption of rights or privilege.
The President's arrogation of this new Act oversteps his bounds and causes our rights to suffer.
1 more example
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?
2000 September 21, Hal Foster, “Slumming with Rappers at the Roxy”, in London Review of Books, volume 22, number 18, →ISSN
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
German Anmaßung
- Anmaßungthe unjust assumption of rights or privilege
Japanese 簒奪, 横取り
- 簒奪 (sandatsu)the unjust assumption of rights or privilege
- 横取り (yokodori)the unjust assumption of rights or privilege
Portuguese arrogação
- arrogaçãothe unjust assumption of rights or privilege
Cite this entry
arrogation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/arrogation
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