arrogative

arrogative (comparative more arrogative, superlative most arrogative)

1. Making undue claims and pretensions; prone to arrogance.
   • 1647, Henry More, “[Philosophical Poems.] Notes upon Psychozoia. .”, in Alexander B Grosart, editor, The Complete Poems of Dr. Henry More (1614–1687)  (Chertsey Worthies’ Library), Edinburgh University Press; Thomas and Archibald Constable, ] for private circulation, published 1878, →OCLC, page 147, column 2:

     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; […]

   • 1863, Viscountess Mary Woolley Gibbings Cotton Combermere, Our Pecularities, page 297:

     Those who have passed the middle of life, and are entitled by the experience of years to comment and criticise, if not to judge and counsel, often yield this privilge to younger censors arrogative of pretensions very willingly relinquished by their seniors; for a long acquaintance with human nature oftener inspires diffidence than self-reliance, when we have learnt how insufficient is worldly knowledge, not only to predict human conduct, but to interpret it.

   • 2002, Toril Moi, Sexual/textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory, page 109:

     Proper – property – appropriate: signally an emphasis on self-identity, self-aggrandizement and arrogative dominance, these words aptly characterize the logic of the proper according to Cixous.

   • 2011, Andreas Höfele, ‎Stephan Laqué, Humankinds: The Renaissance and Its Anthropologies, page 200:

     And he does so in order to counterbalance the arrogative human assumption of being among living creatures the only creature with a rational soul.

   • 2015, A. Beaumont, Contemporary British Fiction and the Cultural Politics of Disenfranchisement, page 60:

     At first glance, the sheer size of the docklands project—its self-consciously monumental aesthetic and the arrogative way in which it was developed with little concern for the historical patterns of identity, habitation and territoriality that already existed there – recalls a totalising, Corbusian approach to urban space.

2. Involving a claim or demand, as opposed to something bestowed or given.
   • 1811, ‎Bryant Barrett, The Code Napoléon, page cxxviii:

     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.

   • 2013, Michael Freeden, The Political Theory of Political Thinking, page 106:

     Yet pace Arendt, strictly speaking, political action as freedom applies only to the moment of arrogative creation and initiation. For although the ur- political act is in one sense unconstrained and willed, it is simultaneously unavoidable, and its enactment does not guarantee the subsequent freedom Arendt aimed at.

   • 2019, Joe Trotta, ‎Zlatan Filipovic, ‎Houman Sadri, Broken Mirrors, page 1995:

     Life is finally loose, one could say, liberated from its social constrains and sincere in its necessities, its insistence and its arrogative demands, but McCarthy also reveals the implications of life's liberation and, by the same token, unmasks any misplaced romanticisations regarding its disavowal in the polis:

3. (linguistics) Exhibiting scope arrogation; expanding the scope of a word to refer to more of a sentence than the minimal possiblity.
   • 1991, Richard Matthews, Words and Worlds: On the Linguistic Analysis of Modality, page 188:

     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.

   • 1994, R. E. Jennings, The Genealogy of Disjunction, page 151:

     Symmetric scope arrogation would seem to be a feature of some commutative conjunctively distributive uses of 'or'. as well as some cases where 'or' conjunctively joins whole sentences, but not all conjunctive occurrences of 'or' are symmetrically arrogative.

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