#arrogate

• To arrogate to oneself — To claim, assume, or attribute to oneself abusively and unjustifiably a right, title, power, merit, or privilege without having the legal or moral authority to do so. Used almost exclusively as a reflexive verb ('a-și aroga').
• Arrogated — Assumed, attributed, or claimed abusively, illegally, and without right; taken over by a person or authority through the violation of moral or legal standards. It describes a title, merit, power, or privilege obtained via usurpation.
• To arrogate to oneself — To appropriate, assume, or confer upon oneself a quality, merit, role, right, task, or responsibility, often arbitrarily, unjustifiably, or without the prior approval of an authority or group.
• Self-attributed — Voluntarily assumed, claimed, or conferred upon oneself without external validation or official approval. It describes a title, merit, role, status, or responsibility that a person or entity has granted to themselves arbitrarily or unilaterally.
• To style oneself — To arbitrarily attribute to oneself, without any legal justification or recognition from an authority, a title of nobility, a leadership position, a special quality, or a dignity; to style oneself. In political analysis, the action describes leaders of radical groups or illegitimate regimes who arrogate sovereign attributes to simulate legitimacy before the masses.
• Self-styling — The act of styling oneself or arrogating a title and its result; the arbitrary and unauthorized attribution of a title, function, quality, or dignity to oneself, without prior legal or social recognition. In public discourse analysis, the phenomenon is often interpreted as a rhetorical strategy for artificial legitimization or self-assumption of a desired identity.