assertivelyadv.
In an assertive manner, by way of assertion, positively, dogmatically.
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the mind > language > statement > assertion or affirmation > [adverb]
sickerly1340
affirminglyc1475
affirmably1489
affirmatively1533
assertively1562
asseverantlya1575
really1604
thetically1657
assertorilya1680
asseveratingly1880
1562 Bp. of Exeter in J. Strype Ann. Reformation I. xxxi. 348 Which they all with one universal consent have assertively written.
1653 T. Manton Pract. Comm. James iii. 2, in Wks. IV. 277 Or you may take it positively and assertively..‘If you offend not in word you are perfect.’
1860 C. W. Goodwin Ess. & Rev. (ed. 2) 250 If he speaks of the same phenomena assertively, we are bound to suppose that things are as he represents them.
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