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n. The act of asserting.

n. Something declared or stated positively, often with no support or attempt at proof.

n. The act of asserting, or that which is asserted; positive declaration or averment; affirmation; statement asserted; position advanced.

n. Maintenance; vindication; as, the assertion of one's rights or prerogatives.

n. A statement in a program asserting a condition expected to be true at a particular point, used in debugging.

n. The act of asserting, or that which is asserted; positive declaration or averment; affirmation; statement asserted; position advanced.

n. Maintenance; vindication.

n. The act of setting free; liberation.—2. The action of maintaining a cause or a claim: as, the assertion of one's rights.—3. The act of stating something to be true.

n. A positive declaration or averment; an unsupported statement or affirmation: as, his assertion proved to be false.

n. Synonyms Vindication, defense, maintenance.3 and Statement, asseveration, protestation.

n. a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary)

n. the act of affirming or asserting or stating something

"The latter assertion, however, is a _mere assertion_; necessary, perhaps, for the theory of"

affirmation    maintenance    vindication   

Cistercian    coercion    desertion    exertion    insertion    reassertion   

assumption    assertions    declaration    statement    denial    supposition    proposition    assurance    accusation    testimony