Definition of Overassertion

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overassertion

overarmed
overarming
overarms
overarousal
overarousals
overarrange
overarranged
overarranges
overarranging
overarticulate
overarticulated
overarticulates
overate
overattachment
overattention
overattentions
overattentive
overattribute
overattributed
overattributes
overattributing

Literary usage of Overassertion

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

1. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"... found among those who have exterminated in themselves too successfully the impulsion of youth. 4. Another trait is the overassertion of individuality. ..."

2. The Religion of the Hebrews by John Punnett Peters (1914)
"There is, nevertheless, a falling away from the beautiful thought of the tender love of God for Israel which we find in Deutero-Isaiah.2 The overassertion ..."

3. Principles of Education Applied to Practice by Wallace Franklin Jones (1911)
"The shy impulse is an instinctive protection against an overassertion of the social instinct. We must all have a measure of suspicion of the motives of ..."

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