All 10 Uses
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Howards End
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- The business man who assumes that this life is everything, and the mystic who asserts that it is nothing, fail, on this side and on that, to hit the truth.
Part 23 *asserts = says (something is true -- especially something disputed)
- When Mr. Wilcox said that one sound man of business did more good to the world than a dozen of your social reformers, she had swallowed the curious assertion without a gasp, and had leant back luxuriously among the cushions of his motorcar.†
Part 4
- They were not "English to the back-bone," as their aunt had piously asserted.†
Part 4
- But in his day the angel of Democracy had arisen, enshadowing the classes with leathern wings, and proclaiming, "All men are equal—all men, that is to say, who possess umbrellas," and so he was obliged to assert gentility, lest he slip into the abyss where nothing counts, and the statements of Democracy are inaudible.†
Part 6
- There an empty stomach asserted itself, and told him that he was a fool.†
Part 6
- "Most certainly her love has died," asserted Fraulein Mosebach.†
Part 8
- "It was something else," he asserted, his elaborate manner breaking down.†
Part 14
- Somehow the barriers of wealth had fallen, and there had been—he could not phrase it—a general assertion of the wonder of the world.†
Part 14
- It was appalling to see her quietly moving forward with her plans, not bitter or excitable, neither asserting innocence nor confessing guilt, merely desiring freedom and the company of those who would not blame her.†
Part 37 *
- The tragedy began quietly enough, and, like many another talk, by the man's deft assertion of his superiority.†
Part 38
Definitions:
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(1)
(assert as in: asserted her opinion that...) to say that something is true -- especially something disputed
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(2)
(assert as in: asserted her authority) to be forceful in exercising influence or rights
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)