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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 ar·ro·gance /ˈærəgən(t)s/
 傲慢態度,自大

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ar·ro·gance n.  The act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner; that species of pride which consists in exorbitant claims of rank, dignity, estimation, or power, or which exalts the worth or importance of the person to an undue degree; proud contempt of others; lordliness; haughtiness; self-assumption; presumption.
    I hate not you for her proud arrogance.   --Shak.
 Syn: -- Haughtiness; hauteur; assumption; lordliness; presumption; pride; disdain; insolence; conceit; conceitedness. See Haughtiness.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 arrogance
      n : overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward
          inferiors [syn: haughtiness, hauteur, highhandedness,
           lordliness]