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Definition of Assuming
1. Adjective. Excessively forward. "The duchess would not put up with presumptuous servants"
Similar to: Forward
Derivative terms: Presumption, Presumption, Presumptuousness
Definition of Assuming
1. a. Pretentious; taking much upon one's self; presumptuous.
Definition of Assuming
1. Verb. (present participle of assume) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Assuming
1. assume [v] - See also: assume
Literary usage of Assuming
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"... and assuming, for the purposes of our decision—as plaintiff in error insists
we must do—that the defendant cannot claim the benefit of those provisions, ..."
2. Convention by National Electric Light Association Convention, National Independent Meat Packers Association, University of Georgia College of Agriculture, University of Georgia Dept. of Food Science (1905)
"assuming that the load is approximately balanced, the meter whose current ...
For assuming a delta-connected load (see diagram) with the meter current coils ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"After showing by appropriate tests that iron is still present the hermetic chemist
proceeds to explain the reaction by assuming the formation of the ..."
4. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin (1896)
"An ironmonger in London, however, assuming a good deal of my pamphlet, and working
it up into his own, and making some small changes in the machine, ..."
5. Homerica, Emendations and Elucidations of the Odyssey by Thomas Leyden Agar (1908)
"assuming then that the vulgate is hopeless and untenable, can we form any probable
conjecture to restore it ? It seems to me that the curious то це\ау (the ..."
6. Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant by Ulysses Simpson Grant (1885)
"assuming THE COMMAND AT CHATTANOOGA—OPENING A LINE OF SUPPLIES BATTLE OF WAUHATCHIE—
ON THE PICKET LINE. THE next day, the 24th, I started out to make a ..."
7. Journal: 1st-13th Congress . Repr. 14th Congress, 1st Session by United States Congress. House (1837)
"... the proportion of each would not exceed an average of thirty thousand dollars ;
but that, deducting; one million for the use of the Mint, anrl assuming ..."
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