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ASSERTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Confidently declared to be so
Example:
the asserted value of the painting
Classified under:
Similar:
declared (made known or openly avowed)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb assert
Context examples:
Then his weakness asserted itself, and he lay down, his ears cocked, his head on one side, as he watched the puppy.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
When I asserted that the Yahoos were the only governing animals in my country, which my master said was altogether past his conception, he desired to know, whether we had Houyhnhnms among us, and what was their employment?
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
What Lucy had asserted to be true, therefore, Elinor could not, dared not longer doubt; supported as it was too on every side by such probabilities and proofs, and contradicted by nothing but her own wishes.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Chance—or rather the evil influence, the Angel of Destruction, which asserted omnipotent sway over me from the moment I turned my reluctant steps from my father’s door—led me first to M. Krempe, professor of natural philosophy.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
It would be fascinating to know whether dolphins respond to special calls made by fishermen, as Pliny the Elder asserted nearly two thousand years ago, says evolutionary biologist Dr Claire Spottiswoode (University of Cambridge and University of Cape Town).
(How humans and wild Honeyguide birds call each other to help, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
In his singular character the dual nature alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally predominated in him.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Every lingering struggle in his favour grew fainter and fainter; and in farther justification of Mr. Darcy, she could not but allow that Mr. Bingley, when questioned by Jane, had long ago asserted his blamelessness in the affair; that proud and repulsive as were his manners, she had never, in the whole course of their acquaintance—an acquaintance which had latterly brought them much together, and given her a sort of intimacy with his ways—seen anything that betrayed him to be unprincipled or unjust—anything that spoke him of irreligious or immoral habits; that among his own connections he was esteemed and valued—that even Wickham had allowed him merit as a brother, and that she had often heard him speak so affectionately of his sister as to prove him capable of some amiable feeling; that had his actions been what Mr. Wickham represented them, so gross a violation of everything right could hardly have been concealed from the world; and that friendship between a person capable of it, and such an amiable man as Mr. Bingley, was incomprehensible.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Besides the signs of a struggle in the room of the unfortunate builder it is now known that the French windows of his bedroom (which is on the ground floor) were found to be open, that there were marks as if some bulky object had been dragged across to the wood-pile, and, finally, it is asserted that charred remains have been found among the charcoal ashes of the fire.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"Yes, you did, too," the other asserted warmly.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
"I am not an angel," I asserted; and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
