All 3 Uses of
assert
in
The War of the Worlds
- A bruise on my temple asserted itself.†
Chpt 2.1 *
- It is commonly supposed that they communicated by sounds and tentacular gesticulations; this is asserted, for instance, in the able but hastily compiled pamphlet (written evidently by someone not an eye-witness of Martian actions) to which I have already alluded, and which, so far, has been the chief source of information concerning them.†
Chpt 2.2
- And I assert that I watched them closely time after time, and that I have seen four, five, and (once) six of them sluggishly performing the most elaborately complicated operations together without either sound or gesture.†
Chpt 2.2
Definition:
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(assert as in: asserted her opinion that...) to say that something is true -- especially something disputed