assumption
IPA: ʌsˈʌmpʃʌn
noun
- The act of assuming, or taking to or upon oneself; the act of taking up or adopting.
- The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; a supposition; an unwarrantable claim.
- The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition.
- (logic) 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, celebrated on 15 August.
- (rhetoric) Assumptio.
- The Assumption of Mary, the mother of Jesus, into heaven, a Catholic dogma.
- A Christian holy day of obligation (August 15) celebrating the Assumption of Mary.
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Examples of "assumption" in Sentences
- Prudence demands the assumption of penetration.
- That is the assumption of deterministic science.
- I understand the assumption of the elite laughing.
- The Catholic church is the Church of the Assumption.
- The qualification modifies the original assumptions.
- The assumption of inferiority is still to be maintained.
- The assumptions of these methods are overt and are verifiable.
- He was buried in the crypt of the Cathedral of the Assumption.
- I'll thank you to avoid making unmerited assumptions about my thinking.
- I guess what I'm trying to do is reestablish the assumption of good faith.
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