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reaˈssertion [re- 5 a.] A repeated assertion, a reaffirmation.
1843Mill Logic I. ii. i. 221 That cannot be called reasoning or inference which is a mere reassertion in different words of what had been asserted before. 1848R. I. Wilberforce Doctr. Incarnation xii. (1852) 327 The glowing words in which Scripture describes the privileges of Christians, are regarded..as a re-assertion of the claims of nature. 1880E. White Cert. Relig. 106 A resolute reassertion by scholars of the Baconian laws of scientific interpretation. So reaˈssertor, one who asserts again.
1859Smiles Self-Help iii. (1860) 48 A recent reassertor of the power of perseverance. |