Word Meanings - ASSERTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of asserting, or that which is asserted; positive declaration or averment; affirmation; statement asserted; position advanced. There is a difference between assertion and demonstration. Macaulay. 2. Maintenance; vindication; as, the

Additional info about word: ASSERTION

1. The act of asserting, or that which is asserted; positive declaration or averment; affirmation; statement asserted; position advanced. There is a difference between assertion and demonstration. Macaulay. 2. Maintenance; vindication; as, the assertion of one's rights or prerogatives.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ASSERTION)

• Claim
• Assertion
• vindication
• pretension
• title
• right
• privilege
• arrogation
• demand
• Saying
• maxim
• saw
• dictum
• declaration
• speech
• byword
• proverb
• aphorism
• apothegm

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ASSERTION)

• Forego
• waive
• disclaim
• abjure
• disavow
• abandon
• concede
• surrender
• repudiate

Related words: (words related to ASSERTION)

• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• PROVERBIAL
  1. Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial. In case of excesses, I take the German proverbial cure, by a hair of the same beast, to be the worst. Sir
• TITLELESS
  Not having a title or name; without legitimate title. "A titleless tyrant." Chaucer.
• DEMANDRESS
  A woman who demands.
• SAYING
  That which is said; a declaration; a statement, especially a proverbial one; an aphorism; a proverb. Many are the sayings of the wise, In ancient and in modern books enrolled. Milton. Syn. -- Declaration; speech; adage; maxim; aphorism; apothegm;
• SAYMAN
  One who assays.
• TITLED
  Having or bearing a title.
• SPEECHLESS
  1. Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech. 2. Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent. Speechless with wonder, and half dead with fear. Addison. -- Speech"less*ly, adv. -- Speech"less*ness, n.
• TITLER
  A large truncated cone of refined sugar.
• RIGHTEOUSNESS
  The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification. There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith,
• DISAVOWANCE
  Disavowal. South.
• SPEECHIFYING
  The dinner and speechifying . . . at the opening of the annual season for the buckhounds. M. Arnold.
• DISAVOWMENT
  Disavowal. Wotton.
• DISAVOWER
  One who disavows.
• SPEECHFUL
  Full of speech or words; voluble; loquacious.
• RIGHT-ANGLED
  Containing a right angle or right angles; as, a right-angled triangle.
• VINDICATION
  The claiming a thing as one's own; the asserting of a right or title in, or to, a thing. Burrill. (more info) 1. The act of vindicating, or the state of being vindicated; defense; justification against denial or censure; as, the vindication of
• RIGHTEOUS
  Doing, or according with, that which is right; yielding to all their due; just; equitable; especially, free from wrong, guilt, or sin; holy; as, a righteous man or act; a righteous retribution. Fearless in his righteous cause. Milton.
• SPEECHIFY
  To make a speech; to harangue.
• BYWORD
  1. A common saying; a proverb; a saying that has a general currency. I knew a wise man that had it for a byword. Bacon. 2. The object of a contemptuous saying. Thou makest us a byword among the heathen. Ps. xliv. 14
• SOUTHSAY
  See SOOTHSAY
• BRIGHT
  See I
• VISAYAN
  A member of the most numerous of the native races of the Philippines, occupying the Visayan Islands and the northern coast Mindanao; also, their language. The Visayans possessed a native culture and alphabet.
• RECLAIMABLE
  That may be reclaimed.
• UNDERSAY
  To say by way of derogation or contradiction. Spenser.
• ASSAY POUND
  A small standard weight used in assaying bullion, etc., sometimes equaling 0.5 gram, but varying with the assayer.
• CARTWRIGHT
  An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.
• RECLAIMER
  One who reclaims.
• ACCLAIM
  1. To applaud. "A glad acclaiming train." Thomson. 2. To declare by acclamations. While the shouting crowd Acclaims thee king of traitors. Smollett. 3. To shout; as, to acclaim my joy.
• ESSAYER
  One who essays. Addison.
• SPRIGHTLY
  Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.