All 8 Uses of
assert
in
Jane Eyre
- Sympathies, I believe, exist (for instance, between far-distant, long-absent, wholly estranged relatives asserting, notwithstanding their alienation, the unity of the source to which each traces his origin) whose workings baffle mortal comprehension.†
Chpt 21
- I could not forget your conduct to me, Jane — the fury with which you once turned on me; the tone in which you declared you abhorred me the worst of anybody in the world; the unchildlike look and voice with which you affirmed that the very thought of me made you sick, and asserted that I had treated you with miserable cruelty.†
Chpt 21
- Now act as you please: write and contradict my assertion — expose my falsehood as soon as you like.†
Chpt 21
- The vehemence of emotion, stirred by grief and love within me, was claiming mastery, and struggling for full sway, and asserting a right to predominate, to overcome, to live, rise, and reign at last: yes, — and to speak.†
Chpt 23
- "I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.†
Chpt 24
- Presently Mr. Wood said — "I cannot proceed without some investigation into what has been asserted, and evidence of its truth or falsehood."†
Chpt 26
- I shuddered to hear the infatuated assertion.†
Chpt 27 *
- I know poetry is not dead, nor genius lost; nor has Mammon gained power over either, to bind or slay: they will both assert their existence, their presence, their liberty and strength again one day.†
Chpt 32
Definition:
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(assert as in: asserted her opinion that...) to say that something is true -- especially something disputed