Definition of assert

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Assert (v. t.) To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate..

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Connotation :: Connotation (n.) The act of connoting; a making known or designating something additional; implication of something more than is asserted.
Deposition :: Deposition (n.) An opinion, example, or statement, laid down or asserted; a declaration..
So :: So (adv.) In the same manner; as has been stated or suggested; in this or that condition or state; under these circumstances; in this way; -- with reflex reference to something just asserted or implied; used also with the verb to be, as a predicate..
Dogmatizer :: Dogmatizer (n.) One who dogmatizes; a bold asserter; a magisterial teacher.
Affirmation :: Affirmation (n.) That which is asserted; an assertion; a positive statement; an averment; as, an affirmation, by the vender, of title to property sold, or of its quality..
Lache :: Lache (n.) Neglect; negligence; remissness; neglect to do a thing at the proper time; delay to assert a claim.
Agnosticism :: Agnosticism (n.) That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies..
Avouch :: Avouch (v. t.) To declare or assert positively and as matter of fact; to affirm openly.
Aver :: Aver (v. t.) To affirm with confidence; to declare in a positive manner, as in confidence of asserting the truth..
Nihilist :: Nihilist (n.) One who advocates the doctrine of nihilism; one who believes or teaches that nothing can be known, or asserted to exist..
Modality :: Modality (n.) A modal relation or quality; a mode or point of view under which an object presents itself to the mind. According to Kant, the quality of propositions, as assertory, problematical, or apodeictic..
Pretension :: Pretension (n.) The act of pretending, or laying claim; the act of asserting right or title..
Vouch :: Vouch (v. i.) To assert; to aver; to declare.
Lotus :: Lotus (n.) An ornament much used in Egyptian architecture, generally asserted to have been suggested by the Egyptian water lily..
Mode :: Mode (n.) The form in which the proposition connects the predicate and subject, whether by simple, contingent, or necessary assertion; the form of the syllogism, as determined by the quantity and quality of the constituent proposition; mood..
Assertive :: Assertive (a.) Positive; affirming confidently; affirmative; peremptory.
Allege :: Allege (v. t.) To bring forward with positiveness; to declare; to affirm; to assert; as, to allege a fact..
Vindicate :: Vindicate (v. t.) To lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim.
Falsity :: Falsity (a.) That which is false; falsehood; a lie; a false assertion.
Subaltern :: Subaltern (a.) Asserting only a part of what is asserted in a related proposition.
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