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[ verb ] state categorically
Synonyms Used in print (David Boroff, "Jewish Teen-Age Culture"...)Still another boy asserted : `` To be a good Jew is to do no wrong ; it 's to be a good_person '' . (Arlin Turner, "William Faulkner, Southern Novelist"...)There is no necessity , I suppose , to assert that Mr._Faulkner is Southern . (Newton Stallknecht, "Ideas and Literature," in Newton S...)When we assert the value of such study , we find ourselves committed to an important assumption . (U.S. Reports. Volume 364. Cases Adjudged in the...)The Court 's opinion dogmatically asserts that the husband wife conspiracy doctrine does not in_fact protect this relationship , and that hence the doctrine `` enthrone [ s ] an unreality into a rule of law '' . This he failed to do , asserting that he did not know it to be in his file . |
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[ verb ] to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true
Examples "Before God I swear I am innocent" Used in print (Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)He then sold her some capsules that he asserted would take_care of the tumors and cysts until she could collect the money for buying his machine . |
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[ verb ] insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized
Synonyms Examples "Women should assert themselves more!" Used in print (Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)Large planes juxtaposed with other large planes tend to assert themselves as independent shapes , and to_the_extent that they are flat , they also assert themselves as silhouettes ; and independent silhouettes are apt to coincide with the recognizable contours of the subject from which a picture starts ( if it does start from a subject ) . Related terms |
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[ verb ] assert to be true
Synonyms Examples "The letter asserts a free society" Related terms |
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