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Definition of asserting : of Assert

Synonyms:

declarative, declaratory

professing, propounding, accepting, ratifying, pledging, validating, contending, certifying, admitting, declaring, promising, corroborating, expressing, maintaining, sustaining, submitting, endorsing, attesting, warranting, verifying, claiming, acknowledging, testifying, adjuring, approving, affirming, supporting, proclaiming, stating, avouching, averring, pronouncing, assuring, setting down

announcing, uncloaking, communicating, divulging, confessing, disclosing, unmasking, exhibiting, disseminating, revealing, advertising, briefing, broadcasting

Usage examples:

• There is hardly another agricultural county in England that will return a Liberal, and I fear I am not asserting too much in saying that no other Liberal could carry the seat but one of our family." - "The Duke's Children", Anthony Trollope.
• This sutta may be taken in connection with passages asserting that the Buddha knows more than he tells his disciples. - "Hinduism and Buddhism, Vol I. (of 3) An Historical Sketch", Charles Eliot.
• At Molines and at Antwerp returned men have died, their friends asserting that they have been victims of neglect and cruelty, of cold, of exposure, of hunger. - "Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights", Kelly Miller.