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asserting

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1. asserting - Noun

2. asserting - Adjective

3. asserting - Verb

Meaning

of Assert

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The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death. Joseph Conrad

Psychoanalysis justifies its importance by asserting that it forces you to look to and accept reality. But what sort of reality? A reality conditioned by the materialistic and scientific ideology of psychoanalysis, that is, a historical product... Mircea Eliade

The error arises from the learned jurists deceiving themselves and others, by asserting that government is not what it really is, one set of men banded together to oppress another set of men, but, as shown by science, is the representation of the citizens in their collective capacity. Leo Tolstoy

There is no point asserting and reasserting what the heart cannot believe. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon. Anthony Burgess

Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead. Giacomo Casanova

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