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Definition of Self-asserting
1. Adjective. Aggressively self-assured. "Pointing directly at a listener is an assertive act"
Also: Aggressive, Imperative
Similar to: Cocky, Emphatic, Forceful
Derivative terms: Assert, Assertiveness
Antonyms: Unassertive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-asserting
Literary usage of Self-asserting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck, Samuel Macauley Jackson (1909)
"... the self-conscious, self-asserting, and acting subject. The Logos assumed,
not a human person (else we should have two persons—a divine and a human), ..."
2. What is Reality?: An Inquiry as to the Reasonableness of Natural Religion by Francis Howe Johnson (1891)
"In the case of a human being, it is represented by the intelligent, self-conscious,
self-asserting ego. This unmistakably real person comes more and more ..."
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