To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.
Numerous experimental tests and other observations have been offered in favor of animal mind reading, and although many scientists are skeptical, others assert that humans are not the only species capable of representing what others do and don’t perceive and know.
To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to.
to assert our rights and liberties
From Latin assertus, perfect passive participle of asserō (“declare someone free or a slave by laying hands upon him; hence free from, protect, defend; lay claim to, assert, declare”), from ad (“to”) ...
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