arrogative
形容词 adj.
英文释义
形容词 adj.
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Making undue claims and pretensions; prone to arrogance.
— But I am not seeing humility and self-denyall and acknowledgement of their own unworthinesse of such things as they aimed at, nor mortification, not of the body (for that's sufficiently insisted upon) but of the more spiritual arrogative life of the soul, that subtill ascribing that to our selves that is Gods, for all is Gods; […]
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Involving a claim or demand, as opposed to something bestowed or given.
— Adoption was either before the pretor or the people (7), and either arrogative, as where the adopted has no natural father, in which case the parties mutually asked each other if they were willing, the one to be the father, the other to become the son, and the assent confirmed it; or, adoptive, where one father bestowed his son upon another.
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Exhibiting scope arrogation; expanding the scope of a word to refer to more of a sentence than the minimal possibility.
— The non-do-supported forms of dare and need tend to favour arrogative and necessitative (or non-arrogative and non-necessitative) interpretation, and thus are less clearly distinct from deontic, and in the case of need, epistemic interpretations.
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