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assert
in
Jane Eyre
(Edited)

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.
p. 254.2

asserting = forcefully exercising
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.
p. 275.3

asserted = said
Now act as you please: write and contradict my assertion — expose my falsehood as soon as you like.
p. 275.8

assertion = statement that something is true
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. "I grieve to leave Thornfield..."
p. 291.9 *

asserting = forcefully exercising
"I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself: Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me -- for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate."
p. 300.3 *

asserted = said
Presently Mr. Wood said — "I cannot proceed without some investigation into what has been asserted, and evidence of its truth or falsehood."
p. 334.1

asserted = said (that something is true)
I shuddered to hear the infatuated assertion.
p. 363.1

assertion = statement that something is true
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.
p. 427.8

assert = to be forceful in exercising influence

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(1) (assert as in: asserted her opinion that...)
to say that something is true -- especially something disputed
(2) (assert as in: asserted her authority)
to be forceful in exercising influence or rights
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

assert in Jane Eyre (Edited)

assert
in
Jane Eyre
(Edited)