All 23 Uses of
assume
in
The Fountainhead
- Her son, Mrs. Keating had decided, would assume his rightful place in the world, and she had clung to this as softly, as inexorably as a leech….
Chpt 1.2 (definition 1)assume = take (power or responsibility)
- She had a meager little income and she assumed the responsibility of taking her brother to her home in New Jersey; she had never been married and had no one else in the world; she was neither glad nor sorry of the burden; she had lost all capacity for emotion many years ago.
Chpt 1.6 (definition 1)assumed = took (power or responsibility)
- It was not a command; she spoke as if it were not necessary for her voice to assume the tones of commanding.
Chpt 1.9 (definition 2)assume = take on or adopt
- But sometimes I get to feel that it's my responsibility after all, though God knows I don't want it, but still there it is, I should do something about it, there's no one else to assume it.
Chpt 1.10 (definition 1)assume = take (power or responsibility)
- Francon's face assumed a look of consternation.
Chpt 1.12 (definition 2)assumed = took on or adopted
- He said, petulantly, assuming the tone of an authority he could never have exercised: "That boy of yours, Guy, that Keating fellow, he's getting to be impossible."
Chpt 1.14 (definition 2)assuming = taking on or adopting
- This was not the manner he had intended to assume.
Chpt 1.15 (definition 2)assume = take on or adopt
- In the hours that followed, his daily work assumed a new relish.
Chpt 2.3 (definition 2)assumed = took on or adopted
- The honest error is the assumption that I wish to help Petey Keating—and, incidentally, I can help him much better than you can, and I have and will, but that's long-range contemplation.
Chpt 2.8 (definition 3)assumption = something accepted as true (without proof)
- It was a disconcerting peculiarity which his face assumed at times; it gave the effect of a double exposure, an ominous emphasis.
Chpt 3.1 (definition 2)assumed = took on or adopted
- His face had assumed the expression it was to wear for the rest of his life: not quite a smile, but a motionless look of irony directed at the whole world.
Chpt 3.1 (definition 2) *assumed = taken on or adopted
- The Banner assumed the appearance of a circus poster in body, of a circus performance in soul.
Chpt 3.1 (definition 2)assumed = took on or adopted
- His hours away from the office had assumed the style of the Banner's front page—but a style raised to a grand plane, as if he were still playing circus, only to a gallery of kings.
Chpt 3.1 (definition 2)
- Why was it assumed that poverty gave one the instincts of cattle?
Chpt 4.1 (definition 3)assumed = accepted as true (without proof)
- Keating assumed leadership over the council.
Chpt 4.1 (definition 1) *assumed = took (power or responsibility)
- He realized that he had to assume a different manner, his usual manner, that he could not speak as he had spoken in the last half-hour.
Chpt 4.2 (definition 2)assume = take on or adopt
- "The title of this venture would be most appropriate," Ellsworth Toohey had written, "if we assumed that the centuries had passed by on horseback."
Chpt 4.7 (definition 3)assumed = accepted as true (without proof)
- My dear Peter, people go by so many erroneous assumptions.
Chpt 4.7 (definition 3) *assumptions = things accepted as true without proof
- What made you assume that the selection of an architect for Cortlandt Homes was up to me?
Chpt 4.7 (definition 3)assume = accept as true (without proof)
- His staff, he thought, was well trained: if this was the popular slang of the day, his boys assumed it automatically.
Chpt 4.9 (definition 2)assumed = took on or adopted
- But Wynand let him finish, then assumed the appearance of listening, as if the sounds were reaching him, delayed.
Chpt 4.15 (definition 2)
- The form was mutilated by two second-handers who assumed the right to improve upon that which they had not made and could not equal.
Chpt 4.18 (definition 1)assumed = took (power or responsibility)
- He sat looking at the keys, holding his chin between two fingers, in the pose he knew he assumed when preparing to attack a paragraph.
Chpt 4.19 (definition 2)assumed = took on or adopted
Definitions:
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(1) (assume as in: She assumed power) beginning to take power or responsibility
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(2) (assume as in: She assumed a false identity) to take on (adopt, wear, strike a pose or appearance of) -- often while pretending or disguising
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(3) (assume as in: I assume it's true) to accept something as true without proof