arrogation

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Noun

arrogation (countable and uncountable, plural arrogations)

1. (law) The unjust assumption of rights or privilege.

   The President's arrogation of this new Act oversteps his bounds and causes our rights to suffer.

   • 2000 September 21, Hal Foster, “Slumming with Rappers at the Roxy”, in London Review of Books‎^[1], volume 22, number 18, →ISSN:

     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?

Antonyms

• abandonment

Derived terms

• nonarrogation

 

Related terms

• arrogate
• arrogant

Translations

the unjust assumption of rights or privilege

• German: Anmaßung (de) f
• Japanese: 簒奪 (ja) (sandatsu), 横取り (ja) (yokodori)
• Portuguese: arrogação f