1
[ noun ] a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary)

Used in print

(Brand Blanshard, "The Emotive Theory," Robert...)

If anyone asked us , after we made the remark that the suffering was a bad thing , whether we should think it relevant to what we said to learn that the incident had never occurred and no pain had been suffered at_all , we should say that it made all the difference in_the_world , that what we were asserting to be bad was precisely the suffering we thought had occurred back there , that if this had not occurred , there was nothing left to be bad , and that our assertion was in that case mistaken .

2
[ noun ] the act of affirming or asserting or stating something

Used in print

(Edward Austin Walton, "On Education for the Interior...)

Yet even here many_a problem is presented ; as in a recent design competition with a floor_plan and the simple command - `` design a luxury apartment '' ; no description of the client or his cultural level , no assertion of geographical_area or local social necessities - simply `` a luxury apartment '' .

*