assertion

[As*ser·tion]

An assertion is a declaration that's made emphatically, especially as part of an argument or as if it's to be understood as a statement of fact.

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

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

Noun
the act of affirming or asserting or stating something


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.


Assertion

As*ser"tion , n. [L. assertio, fr. asserere.] 1. The act of asserting, or that which is asserted; positive declaration or averment; affirmation; statement asserted; position advanced.
There is a difference between assertion and demonstration.
2. Maintenance; vindication; as, the assertion of one's rights or prerogatives.

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

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Usage Examples

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.

Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.

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