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assertion

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Noun
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun assertion has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

assertionn. [L. assertio, fr. asserere.].
  •  The act of asserting, or that which is asserted; positive declaration or averment; affirmation; statement asserted; position advanced.  [1913 Webster]
    "There is a difference between assertion and demonstration."  [1913 Webster]
  •  Maintenance; vindication; as, the assertion of one's rights or prerogatives.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

assertion, n.
1 a declaration; a forthright statement.
2 the act or an instance of asserting.
3 (also self-assertion) insistence on the recognition of one's rights or claims.

Etymology
ME f. F assertion or L assertio (as ASSERT, -ION)

THESAURUS

assertion

Parthian shot, a priori principle, address, admission, affidavit, affirmance, affirmation, allegation, announcement, annunciation, answer, apostrophe, apriorism, asseveration, assumed position, assumption, attest, attestation, averment, avouchment, avowal, axiom, basis, categorical proposition, comment, compurgation, conclusion, confirmation, contention, crack, creed, data, declaration, deposition, dictum, disclosure, enunciation, exclamation, expression, first principles, foundation, greeting, ground, hypothesis, hypothesis ad hoc, insistence, instrument in proof, interjection, ipse dixit, legal evidence, lemma, major premise, manifesto, mention, minor premise, note, observation, philosopheme, philosophical proposition, phrase, position, position paper, positive declaration, postulate, postulation, postulatum, predicate, predication, premise, presupposition, proclamation, profession, pronouncement, proposition, propositional function, protest, protestation, question, reflection, remark, representation, say, say-so, saying, sentence, stance, stand, statement, subjoinder, sumption, supposal, sworn evidence, sworn statement, sworn testimony, testimonial, testimonium, testimony, theorem, thesis, thought, truth table, truth-function, truth-value, utterance, vouch, witness, word

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assertion

Affirmation

N affirmance, affirmation, statement, allegation, assertion, predication, declaration, word, averment, confirmation, asseveration, adjuration, swearing, oath, affidavit, deposition, avouchment, assurance, protest, protestation, profession, acknowledgment, legal pledge, pronouncement, solemn averment, solemn avowal, solemn declaration, remark, observation, position, saying, dictum, sentence, ipse dixit, emphasis, weight, dogmatism, dogmatics, asserting, declaratory, predicatory, pronunciative, affirmative, soi-disant, positive, certain, express, explicit, absolute, emphatic, flat, broad, round, pointed, marked, distinct, decided, confident, trenchant, dogmatic, definitive, formal, solemn, categorical, peremptory, unretracted, predicable, affirmatively, in the affirmative, with emphasis, ex-cathedra, without fear of contradiction, as God is my witness, I must say, indeed, i' faith, let me tell you, why, give me leave to say, marry, you may be sure, I'd have you to know, upon my word, upon my honor, by my troth, egad, I assure you, by jingo, by Jove, by George, troth, seriously, sadly, in sadness, in sober sadness, in truth, in earnest, of a truth, truly, perdy, in all conscience, upon oath, be assured, yes, I'll warrant, I'll warrant you, I'll engage, I'll answer for it, I'll be bound, I'll venture to say, I'll take my oath, in fact, forsooth, joking apart, so help me God, not to mince the matter, quoth he, dixi.

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