Asserting

noun, verb

noun, verb ·3 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of making assertions.

    "From this perspective, when one evaluates assertions one is primarily evaluating assertings performances on the part of asserters, and the evaluations of what is said in those assertings in some way depend upon these prior evaluations."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of assert form-of, gerund, participle, present
Adjective
  1. 1
    relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration wordnet

Synonyms

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declarativedeclarativedeclaratory

Example

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"Tom was asserting, judging by the verb in front of him, that the sentence was past tense, while Mary, seeing the gerundive under her eyes, was swearing it was a present."

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