Definition of Asserting

1. Adjective. Relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration.


Definition of Asserting

1. Verb. (present participle of assert) ¹

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Definition of Asserting

1. assert [v] - See also: assert

Literary usage of Asserting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Absolutely speaking, no one is warranted in asserting that these two forces will not be able to modify indefinitely the conditions in which the law of ..."

2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1888)
"That the defendants be forever debarred from asserting any claim whatever to the premises or any part thereof. The answer of Hammer denies that the ..."

3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"... in asserting the admiralty jurisdiction in personam, it is apparent that unusual importance must have attached to the next case coming before the court ..."

4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"... the self-conscious, self-asserting, and acting subject. The Logos assumed, not a human person (else we should have two persons—a divine and a human), ..."

5. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (1855)
"... share in fomenting the war, asserting that " they were restrained in the privilege of governing themselves, which had been allowed them by the treaty. ..."

6. Woodrow Wilson and World Settlement by Ray Stannard Baker (1922)
"Letter of General Smuts to President Wilson (autographed original), dated May 30, 1919, criticizing the Treaty and asserting ..."

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