nonassumption

Noun

nonassumption (countable and uncountable, plural nonassumptions)

1. The failure to take up, adopt, or take responsibility for.
   • His nonassumption of the Baronetcy certainly throws some doubt on the validity of his mother's marriage, but the issue thereof was recognised by the parents of the father, whose mother, “Noble Marie Kinloch, neé de Rochead,” was, in 1732, sponsor to the 1st child, and whose father 9the 4th Baronet(...1904 -, Complete Baronetage: English, Irish and Scottish, 1665-1707, page 347
   • Most of the cases in which the servant's nonassumption of extraordinary risks is asserted relate to injuries caused by dangerous conditions which arise from or are incident to the intrinsic quality or the permanent arrangement and relative disposition of the instrumentalities of the business or the...1913, Charles Bagot Labatt, Employers' liability, page 3152
2. The failure to accept as true without proof.
   • Although the material deduction presupposes the formal deduction, the latter does not predetermine the method to be used for performing the former. The success of the formal deduction does not depend on the assumption or nonassumption of the principle of the identity of the unity of apperception...1995, Russian Studies in Philosophy - Volume 34, page 363
3. Something that is not assumed to be true without proof.
   • Understanding the playing field, including assumptions and nonassumptions.2012, Theresa L. Harris, George Taylor, Raising African-American Males, →ISBN
   • Finally, theology nowadays needs the vision and the courage, the fantasy and the carnival of bordercrossing, transgressing old boundaries, disciplines, and commonly assumed nonassumptions.2013, Hans-Peter Geiser, The Community of the Weak, →ISBN