arrogative

Adjective

arrogative (comparative more arrogative, superlative most arrogative)

1. 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...1647, Henry More, “[Philosophical Poems.] Notes upon Psychozoia. [Canto II.].”, in Alexander B[alloch] Grosart, editor, The Complete Poems of Dr. Henry More (1614–1687) […] (Chertsey Worthies’...
   • 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...1863, Viscountess Mary Woolley Gibbings Cotton Combermere, Our Pecularities, page 297
2. 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...1811, Bryant Barrett, The Code Napoléon, page cxxviii
   • 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...2013, Michael Freeden, The Political Theory of Political Thinking, page 106
3. 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.1991, Richard Matthews, Words and Worlds: On the Linguistic Analysis of Modality, page 188
   • 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.1994, R. E. Jennings, The Genealogy of Disjunction, page 151