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Definition of Asserts
1. assert [v] - See also: assert
Literary usage of Asserts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1850)
"Mr. Croker asserts, that " the shot which mortally wounded the Duke of Grafton
is said to have been fired by a blacksmith from a forge in ' Old Port Office ..."
2. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (1917)
"CHAPTER IV CHEERFULNESS AGAIN asserts ITSELF AT BLOOMS- END, AND CLYM FINDS HIS
VOCATION Anybody who had passed through Blooms-End about eleven o'clock on ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"... which asserts the sole authorship of Sir Philip, is m flat contradiction to
the first, which asserts the joint authorship of Sir Philip with his father, ..."
4. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"The proposition is not true. On the other hand, suppose it is not true. In that
case, That it is not true is true, But all that the proposition asserts is ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1906)
"SA asserts itself and the proportions are smaller. On Amorphous Sulphur; V.
Further Study of the Two Forms of Liquid Sulphur as Dynamic Isomers: ALEXANDER ..."
6. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... that were intended to counteract the licentious tendency of his amatory verses.
As a general apology for the latter, he asserts that they " do ..."
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