Слово "assumption". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

Indeed, she rehearsed that exalted part in life with great satisfaction to herself, and to the amusement of old Sir Pitt, who chuckled at her airs and graces, and would laugh by the hour together at her assumptions of dignity and imitations of genteel life.

Why is that the assumption?

… Implicit in all these definitions is the assumption that the human conglomerate being dealt with is sufficiently large for valid statistical treatment.

"I proceeded to reason on that assumption.

'She would put on any assumption of feeling to veil her daughter's weakness,' said Margaret in a low voice.

What we ask is an open discussion of facts of nature unbound by political assumptions false to fact.

In spite of my assumption of indifference, I locked the door into the hall, and finding the transom did not catch, I put a chair cautiously before the door—it was not necessary to rouse Liddy—and climbing up put on the ledge of the transom a small dressing-mirror, so that any movement of the frame would send it crashing down.

You had to live--did live, from habit that became instinct--in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.

I could see nothing in Mayella’s expression to justify Atticus’s assumption that he had secured her wholehearted cooperation.

“The question we have now to ask ourselves is this,” he said. “Is this murder the work of some rival gang whom Cassetti had double-crossed in the past, or is it an act of private vengeance?” He explained his discovery of the few words on the charred fragment of paper. “If I am right in my assumption, then, the letter was burnt by the murderer.

If a woman is concerned, as you seem to think (to my mind without any evidence but on a mere assumption), I can assure you that Miss Debenham could not possibly be implicated.”