All 4 Uses of
assert
in
Mansfield Park
- He still reasoned with her, but in vain. She would not calculate, she would not compare. She would only smile and assert.
Chpt 9 *assert = say (that something is true)
- But this was immediately opposed by Tom Bertram, who asserted the part of Amelia to be in every respect the property of Miss Crawford, if she would accept it.
Chpt 14asserted = saying forcefully
- Susan was only acting on the same truths, and pursuing the same system, which her own judgment acknowledged, but which her more supine and yielding temper would have shrunk from asserting.
Chpt 40
- I looked upon him as the sort of person to be made a fuss with, and to make a fuss himself in any trifling disorder, and was chiefly concerned for those who had to nurse him; but now it is confidently asserted that he is really in a decline, that the symptoms are most alarming, and that part of the family, at least, are aware of it.
Chpt 45asserted = said
Definition:
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(assert as in: asserted her opinion that...) to say that something is true -- especially something disputed