All 4 Uses of
assert
in
War and Peace
- Moreover, the assertion made by various writers that his cold was the cause of his dispositions not being as well planned as on former occasions, and of his orders during the battle not being as good as previously, is quite baseless, which again shows that Napoleon's cold on the twenty-sixth of August was unimportant.†
Chpt 10
- He alone then understood the meaning of the French army's inactivity, he alone continued to assert that the battle of Borodino had been a victory, he alone—who as commander in chief might have been expected to be eager to attack—employed his whole strength to restrain the Russian army from useless engagements.†
Chpt 13
- Specialist historians describing the campaign of 1813 or the restoration of the Bourbons plainly assert that these events were produced by the will of Alexander.†
Chpt 15
- A third asserts that the cause of its movement lies in the smoke which the wind carries away.†
Chpt 15 *
Definition:
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(assert as in: asserted her opinion that...) to say that something is true -- especially something disputed