Reassert
[riːə'sɜːt] or ['riə'sɝt]
Definition
(v. t.) To assert again or anew; to maintain after an omission to do so.
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Definition
v.t. to assert again.—n. Reasser′tion.
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Examples
- Let that infallibility come to be doubted, as in Russia to-day, and natural impulses reassert themselves, the great impositions begin to weaken. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But she did not weep easily, and the long habit of self-control reasserted itself, though she was still too tremulous to speak. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Then my old-time spirit reasserted itself. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Let other nations be merchants and warriors, while Greece reasserts her ancient vocation of teacher. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The energy that would animate a crime is not more than is wanted to inspire a resolved submission, when the noble habit of the soul reasserts itself. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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