Assertion: alternatives and connections

The act of accusing or charging with a crime or with a lighter offense.

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Confirmation of anything established; ratification; as, the affirmation of a law.

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The act of avouching; positive declaration.

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An open declaration; frank acknowledgment; as, an avowal of such principles.

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To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

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To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.

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A violent effort or struggle to obtain, or to resist, something; contest; strife.

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The act of gainsaying, refusing, or disowning; negation; -- the contrary of affirmation.

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The act of disaffirming; negation; refutation.

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A solemn declaration or affirmation made for the purpose of establishing or proving some fact.

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The act of declaring, or publicly announcing; explicit asserting; undisguised token of a ground or side taken on any subject; proclamation; expositio…

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To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.

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To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.

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To stand or rest; to find support; -- with in, on, or upon.

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To stand or rest; to find support; -- with in, on, or upon.

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To make into a verb; to use as a verb; to verbalize.

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To make into a verb; to use as a verb; to verbalize.

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Confirmation of anything established; ratification; as, the affirmation of a law.

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The act of asseverating, or that which is asseverated; positive affirmation or assertion; solemn declaration.

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The act of averring, or that which is averred; affirmation; positive assertion.

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The act of stating, reciting, or presenting, orally or in paper; as, to interrupt a speaker in the statement of his case.

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