ASSERTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does asserting mean? 

• ASSERTING (adjective)
  The adjective ASSERTING has 1 sense:

1. relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration

  Familiarity information: ASSERTING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASSERTING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration

Synonyms:

asserting; declarative; declaratory

 Context examples 

“It can be done, it can be done,” I was thinking and asserting aloud.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

And through it all the weariness was asserting itself more and more.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

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.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He has denied to me since that it was hysterics, and insisted that it was only his sense of humour asserting itself under very terrible conditions.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It was the Wild still clinging to him, asserting itself through him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

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.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Her own family were plain, matter-of-fact people who seldom aimed at wit of any kind; her father, at the utmost, being contented with a pun, and her mother with a proverb; they were not in the habit therefore of telling lies to increase their importance, or of asserting at one moment what they would contradict the next.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Mr. Creakle then made a speech, through Tungay, in which he thanked Steerforth for asserting (though perhaps too warmly) the independence and respectability of Salem House; and which he wound up by shaking hands with Steerforth, while we gave three cheers—I did not quite know what for, but I supposed for Steerforth, and so joined in them ardently, though I felt miserable.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Though he had detected with a critical eye more than one failure of perfect symmetry in her form, he was forced to acknowledge her figure to be light and pleasing; and in spite of his asserting that her manners were not those of the fashionable world, he was caught by their easy playfulness.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

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.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)