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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In this letter, as in the former, it is easy to trace the same spirit which so evidently characterizes the author as an honest and fearless assertor of what he believes to be the truth.
From John Ronge: The Holy Coat Of Treves New German-Catholic Chruch by Anonymous
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
For the assertor may be asked, How do you know that thought is not self-existent; or that a given thought is not the effect of its antecedent thought, or of some external power?
From Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews by Thomas Henry Huxley
A sweet disposed gentleman; he joined King William at the Revolution, and is a zealous assertor of the liberties of the people.—Swift.
From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 10 Historical Writings by Jonathan Swift
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
