assertorn.
/əˈsəːtɔː/, /əˈsəːtə/, U.S. /əˈsərdər/ a. A person who liberates a slave.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > [noun] > from slavery > one who
assertor1678
manumitter1774
1678 R. Cudworth tr. De Mundo in True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 482 Called Σωτὴρ and Ἐλευθέριος, Saviour and Assertour.
b. A person who lays claim to a slave. Obsolete.
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1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. v. f. 14 That Claudius the assertor and plaintife,..should haue the kepyng and placyng of the maide.
2. A person who maintains or defends; a champion, vindicator, advocate.
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society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > justification > [noun] > vindication > one who
vindicator1566
asserter1644
assertor1647
vindictor1677
1647 J. Hare St. Edwards Ghost 8 The Greeks and Gauls were..famous assertours of their Liberties.
1872 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) IV. xvii. 96 Archbishop John was a rigid Assertor of ecclesiastical discipline.
3. A person who makes a positive statement.
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the mind > language > statement > assertion or affirmation > [noun] > one who
affirmera1425
asserterc1449
protestor?1548
affirmant?1567
avoucher1570
protester1591
assertor1646
predicator1694
allegator1847
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 206 Wherein indeed Aristotle playes the Aristotle, that is, the wary and evading assertor . View more context for this quotation
1797 Encycl. Brit. II. Astronomy 493/1 The imputation must return upon the assertor.
1853 De Morgan in F. C. Bowen Logic (1870) ix. 286 Which the assertor is afterwards at liberty to deny.
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