American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To state or express positively; affirm: asserted his innocence.
- v. To defend or maintain (one's rights, for example).
- idiom. assert oneself To act boldly or forcefully, especially in defending one's rights or stating an opinion.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To bring (into freedom); set (free).
- To vindicate, maintain, or defend by words or measures; support the cause or claims of; vindicate a claim or title to: now used only of immaterial objects or reflexively: as, to assert our rights and liberties; he asserted himself boldly.
- To state as true; affirm; asseverate; aver; declare.
- Syn. 2. Assert, Defend, Maintain, Vindicate, Assert supports a cause or claim aggressively: its meaning is well brought out in the expression, assert yourself; that is, make your influence felt. To defend is primarily to drive back assaults. To maintain is to hold up to the full amount, defending from diminution: as, to maintain the ancient customs, liberties, rights. To vindicate is to rescue, as from diminution, dishonor, or censure: as, to “vindicate the ways of God to man,”
- Assert, Affirm, Declare, Aver, Asseverate (see declare), allege, protest, avow, lay down. (See protest.) Assert seems to expect doubt or contradiction of what one says. Affirm strengthens a statement by resting it upon one's reputation for knowledge or veracity: as, “she constantly affirmed that it was even so,” Acts xii. 15. Declare makes public, clear, or emphatic, especially against contradiction. Aver is positive and peremptory. Asseverate is positive and solemn.
- n. computer science an assert statement; a section of source code which tests whether an expected condition is true.
- v. To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.
- v. To use or exercise and thereby prove the existence of.
- v. To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties.
- v. computer science to make true; to make equal to 1.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.
- v. Obs. or Archaic To maintain; to defend.
- v. To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to.
- v. assert to be true
- v. state categorically
- v. to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true
- v. insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized
- From Latin assertus, perfect passive participle of asserō ("declare someone free or a slave by laying hands upon him; hence free from, protect, defend; lay claim to, assert, declare"), from ad ("to") + serō ("join, range in a row"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin asserere, assert- : ad-, ad- + serere, to join. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
“Global warming is, after all, global, so if what you assert is true, there ought to occasionally be a trip over, for example, the trans-Siberian railway from Vladivostok to Moscow.”
“What you assert is not a “fact” anymore than the election of “President-elect Huckabee” in 2008 was a “fact”.”
“The same goes for whenever Dick Fuld has reemerged to again assert it was the government's fault, not his, that Lehman Brothers failed.”
“Experience, we all assert, is a good thing, a necessary thing, the difference between a qualified practitioner and a tyro.”
“Admitting the comparision that you assert is "unrelibale.”
“What happens with liberals, I assert, is that they then, in many cases, filter what they have learned through emotion through reason to come up with a response.”
“Would you ban them ? would you ban dangerous sport , would you , in short , assert , that the state owns your life.”
“Your background which you assert is in the law, then in catering, seems rather interesting.”
“But eventually, he suggested, television would incorporate those same enhancements into its own equipment, and television would once again assert its advantage of convenience within the home.”
“This now highly controversial energy issue, I would assert, is fundamental to the kind of choices Ontarians must make.”
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