Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Assumed by one's own act or authority: as, a self-assumed title.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Assumed by one's own act, or without authority.
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Examples
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It means that they have taken on a self-assumed, ideologically charged and wholly illegitimate role as social engineers.
Five Go Camping In Hampshire « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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The Obama administration is no more willing to speak to Israel without preconditions than it is Iran, and our self-assumed King is just plain annoyed that they would treat him as a strategic partner — perhaps even a wayward and/or inept one — and not as their master.
Optimism Watch: Instapundit/Israel/Obama edition. | RedState 2010
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For all our self-assumed scientific sophistication, for all our scans and labs and genetic analyses, healing has not been made all that much more understandable or all that much less mysterious.
Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: Verbal First Aid: Healing Children's Pain and Fear With Words 2010
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Always be wary of a self-assumed authority based on charism.
The ‘woefully incompetent’ and ‘pugnacious’ André Alexis 2010
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For all our self-assumed scientific sophistication, for all our scans and labs and genetic analyses, healing has not been made all that much more understandable or all that much less mysterious.
Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: Verbal First Aid: Healing Children's Pain and Fear With Words 2010
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In the end, however, it was psychologists 'self-assumed importance that carried the day on the torture issue.
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Just like most academics in western hemisphere, Leigh is pretty intimidated by either his self-assumed integrity that he thinks is associated with using copyrights, which itself is an absurd idea and also because of the institutional intimidation and consequences of talking against copyright in the contemporary system.
Visualizing Open/Networked Teaching: Revisited « open thinking 2009
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Aimless, shallow, apathetic or fadishly political youth are nothing new, but those of this decade marched under no self-assumed collective identity.
The Insular Decade 2009
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Due in some part to the many regular posters of your ilk who home in and scorn and scoff at Melanie and keep us informed with their self-assumed superior wisdom and knowledge.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Due in some part to the many regular posters of your ilk who home in and scorn and scoff at Melanie and keep us informed with their self-assumed superior wisdom and knowledge.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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