assert
verb (used with object)
to state with assurance, confidence, or force; state strongly or positively; affirm; aver.
assertor
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a word derived from
assert.
Example Sentences
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He finds in him the “subtlest assertor of the soul in song,” and the noblest example of the spiritual element in our modern verse.
From A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
He is a good country gentleman, a great assertor of the prerogatives of the monarchy and the Church.—Swift.
From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 10 Historical Writings by Jonathan Swift
He came to be "the subtlest assertor of the Soul in Song," and like his own pair of lovers on the Campagna, "unashamed of soul."
From Browning's Shorter Poems by Franklin T. (Franklin Thomas) Baker
Xenophanes was also an assertor of many gods, and one God; but his one God is unquestionably supreme.
From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker
Brutus was, with the consent of his colleague, first attended by the fasces, who had not been a more zealous assertor of liberty than he was afterwards its guardian.
From The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Titus Livius
