Both Uses of
assert
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version
- I believe there is no society of any kind in the Colonies, nothing that I would call society; so when you have made your fortune you must come back and assert yourself in London.†
Chpt 5 *
- Fashion, by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment universal, and Dandyism, which, in its own way, is an attempt to assert the absolute modernity of beauty, had, of course, their fascination for him.†
Chpt 11
Definition:
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(assert as in: asserted her opinion that...) to say that something is true -- especially something disputed