All 14 Uses of

assume
in
Jane Eyre

Miss Miller assumed the fourth vacant chair, which was that nearest the door, and around which the smallest of the children were assembled: to this inferior class I was called, and placed at the bottom of it.
p. 54.4

assumed = took

Miss Temple had looked down when he first began to speak to her; but she now gazed straight before her, and her face, naturally pale as marble, appeared to be assuming also the coldness and fixity of that material; especially her mouth, closed as if it would have required a sculptor's chisel to open it, and her brow settled gradually into petrified severity.
p. 75.7

assuming = taking on or adopting

This testimonial I accordingly received in about a month, forwarded a copy of it to Mrs. Fairfax, and got that lady's reply, stating that she was satisfied, and fixing that day fortnight as the period for my assuming the post of governess in her house.
p. 106.7

assuming = taking over

Assuming an attitude, she began, "La Ligue des Rats: fable de La Fontaine."
p. 121.9

assuming = taking on or adopting

She paused, and then added, with a sort of assumed indifference, but still in a marked and significant tone — "But you are young, Miss; and I should say a light sleeper: perhaps you may have heard a noise?"
p. 179.9

assumed = false (taken on or adopted, but not real)

Afternoon arrived: Mrs. Fairfax assumed her best black satin gown, her gloves, and her gold watch; for it was her part to receive the company, — to conduct the ladies to their rooms, &c.
p. 193.1

assumed = wore

This I quickly was: my best dress (the silver-grey one, purchased for Miss Temple's wedding, and never worn since) was soon put on; my hair was soon smoothed; my sole ornament, the pearl brooch, soon assumed.
p. 198.2

assumed = out on

"Sit," he said; "the bench is long enough for two. You don't hesitate to take a place at my side, do you? Is that wrong, Jane?"
I answered him by assuming it: to refuse would, I felt, have been unwise.
p. 251.4 *

assuming = taking

When tea was over and Mrs. Fairfax had taken her knitting, and I had assumed a low seat near her, and Adele, kneeling on the carpet, had nestled close up to me, and a sense of mutual affection seemed to surround us with a ring of golden peace, I uttered a silent prayer that we might not be parted far or soon; but when, as we thus sat, Mr. Rochester entered, unannounced, and looking at us, seemed to take pleasure in the spectacle of a group so amicable — when he said he supposed the old…
p. 284.3

assumed = taken

He looked at me long and hard: I turned my eyes from him, fixed them on the fire, and tried to assume and maintain a quiet, collected aspect.
p. 348.8

assume = take on (an appearance)

Anxious as ever to avoid discovery, I had before resolved to assume an alias.
p. 387.6 *

assume = take on or adopt

"Half-an-hour ago," he pursued, "I spoke of my impatience to hear the sequel of a tale: on reflection, I find the matter will be better managed by my assuming the narrator's part, and converting you into a listener."
p. 438.1

assuming = taking on or adopting

My work, which had appeared so vague, so hopelessly diffuse, condensed itself as he proceeded, and assumed a definite form under his shaping hand.
p. 466.1

assumed = took on

It was MY time to assume ascendency.
p. 484.1

assume = take (power or responsibility)

Definitions:

(1) (assume as in: I assume it's true)
to accept something as true without proof
(2) (assume as in: She assumed power)
beginning to take power or responsibility
(3) (assume as in: She assumed a false identity)
to take on (adopt, wear, strike a pose or appearance of) -- often while pretending or disguising
(4) (assume as in: assumed into heaven)
to take up or receive someone into heaven