Assume vs Foretake - What's the difference?
assume | foretake |
To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof.
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*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
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, title= To take on a position, duty or form.
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*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:Trembling they stand while Jove assumes the throne.
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*:Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
*{{quote-news, year=2012, date=August 5, author=(Nathan Rabin)
, title= To take on in appearance; to adopt (a feigned attribute, etc.).
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
*(Beilby Porteus) (1731-1809)
*:ambition assuming the mask of religion
To receive or adopt.
*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
*:The sixth was a young knight of lesser renown and lower rank, assumed into that honorable company.
To adopt an idea or cause.
To take, receive, or adopt beforehand; assume.
*1855 , John Claudius Pitrat, Paul and Julia :
*2006 , Robert L. Sanders, An Appeal to Reveal Poetic Ideal :
*2010 , Raymond A. Francis, True Experiences: The Sins That Brought Me to My Knees :
To take or choose before another (option); prefer.
*2011 , Jacqueline Prost, Journey Through Experiences :
As verbs the difference between assume and foretake
is that assume is while foretake is to take, receive, or adopt beforehand; assume.assume
English
Verb
(assum)Obama's once hip brand is now tainted, passage=Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.}}
TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa”(season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993) , passage=So while Ralph generally seems to inhabit a different, more glorious and joyful universe than everyone else here his yearning and heartbreak are eminently relateable. Ralph sometimes appears to be a magically demented sprite who has assumed the form of a boy, but he’s never been more poignantly, nakedly, movingly human than he is here.}}
Synonyms
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English
Verb
- You shall bring and lay in our hands tne product of your activity: we will divide it into two parts — the one shall be ours; it shall be sacred; you shall call it tithe; we will foretake it [...]
- Enraptures a man to foretake his pleasure, And capture a woman to partake her treasure.
- Upon entering, she showed me to the bedroom. I got undressed and laid on the bed, thinking of the course of action I had to foretake as I lay there.
- To be healthy and acknowledged I strive to be my very best / I am grateful and thankful For the blessings I do have / I foretake to dream the biggest dream yet [...]