Assertions
[ə'sɜ:ʃnz]
Examples
- Edison's assertions were treated with scepticism by the scientific world, which was not then ready for the discovery and not sufficiently furnished with corroborative data. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Fair words and fair pretences; but I penetrated below those assertions of themselves and depreciations of me, and they were no better. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Both assertions were gratuitously made, and both were false. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I have already assured you of my fidelity, said Raymond with disdainful coldness, triple assertions will avail nothing where one is despised. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Such assertions had a certain element of truth in them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- How could she deny that credit to his assertions in one instance, which she had been obliged to give in the other? Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- It will be a comfort to me to speak where belief has gone beforehand, and where I shall not seem to be offering assertions of my own honesty. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- For Gerald came down like a sledge-hammer with his assertions, anything the little German said was merely contemptible rubbish. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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