assumed

Speech parts

1. assumed - Adjective

2. assumed - Verb

4. assumed - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Assume

Supposed.

Pretended; hypocritical; make-believe; as, an assumed character.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Let us become like Christ, since Christ became like us. He assumed the worse that He might give us the better; He became poor that we through His poverty might be rich. Gregory of Nazianzus

Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works. John Updike

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen. George Washington

I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early. Thom Gunn

It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one. Morris Raphael Cohen

That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians. William Blake

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