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Noun: assumption  u'súm(p)-shun
    - premise, premiss
  2. A hypothesis that is taken for granted
    "any society is built upon certain assumptions";
    - supposition, supposal
  3. The act of taking possession of or power over something
    - laying claim
  4. Audacious (even arrogant) behaviour that you have no right to
    "he despised them for their assumption";
    - presumption, presumptuousness, effrontery
  5. The act of assuming or taking for granted
    "your assumption that I would agree was unwarranted"
Noun: Assumption
  2. Celebration in the Roman Catholic Church of the Virgin Mary's being taken up into heaven when her earthly life ended; corresponds to the Dormition in the Eastern Orthodox Church
    - Assumption of Mary, August 15

Derived forms: assumptions

Type of: acquisition, act, audaciousness, audacity, deed, holy day of obligation, human action, human activity, hypothesis, miracle, posit, possibility, postulate, theory

Part of: Aug, August

Encyclopedia: Assumption, Ohio