a. rare. [f. ASSUMPTION: see -TIOUS.] Given to assumption, assuming. Hence Assumptiousness, tendency to take too much upon oneself.
1878. Mrs. H. Wood, Pomeroy Abb., I. viii. ‘When she has shaken down into her place, and’—’Become less assumptious you would say.’
1870. Pall Mall Gaz., 3 June. The ‘assumptiousness’ which Mr. Beresford Hope attributed to the First Commissioner of Works.
