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Definition of Assert
Assert

To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.

To maintain; to defend.

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.

Related Definitions:
Affirm, And, As, Assert, Asseverate, Assurance, Aver, By, Cause, Claim, Declare, Defend, Liberties, Maintain, Or, Our, Plainly, Positively, State, Strongly, Title, To, Vindicate, With


Assert Quotations

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
Cecil Beaton

Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Albert Camus

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
Albert Camus

Assert Translations

assert in Dutch is beweren, verzekeren
assert in French is affirmer, affirment, faire valoir, affirmons
assert in German is behaupten, behaupte, behaupten
assert in Italian is affermare, far valere
assert in Norwegian is hevde
assert in Portuguese is afirme
assert in Spanish is opinar

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