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reassert, v.|riːəˈsɜːt|
[re- 5 a.]
1. trans. To assert (a statement, claim, etc.) again.
a1665J. Goodwin Filled w. the Spirit (1867) 162 We might re-assert our former argument for the divinity of the Holy Ghost. 1726Pope Odyss. xvii. 147 With equal fury, and with equal fame, Shall great Ulysses re-assert his claim. 1771Junius Lett. lvi. 293 You replied with abuse, and re⁓asserted your charge. 1835Lytton Rienzi v. v, I re-asserted each right, and proved it. 1879Froude Cæsar xxii. 368 They had an opportunity of reasserting their independence.
refl.1840Mill Diss. & Disc. (1875) I. 417 The natural tendency..reasserted itself. 1854Kingsley Alexandria Pref. 10 These laws will..reassert themselves.
†2. To reassign (a person) to a condition. Obs.—1
1675South Serm. (1823) I. 297 Gross ingratitude in the person..made free, forfeits his freedom, and re-asserts him to his former conditions of slavery.
3. To claim (a thing) again. rare.
1725Pope Odyss. i. 52 To warn the wretch, that young Orestes grown To manly years shou'd re-assert the throne. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxv. (1856) 202 Both of these documents reassert the name of Albert Land for the large tract of high lands.
Hence reaˈsserting vbl. n.
1697C. Leslie Snake in Grass (ed. 2) 233 A fair occasion..towards the Re-asserting of the Good Old Cause. |