Antonyms for assertion

Grammar : Noun

Spell : uh-sur-shuhn

Phonetic Transcription : əˈsɜr ʃən

Definition of assertion

Origin : early 15c., assercioun, from Middle French assertion (14c.) or directly from Late Latin assertionem (nominative assertio), noun of action from past participle stem of Latin asserere "claim rights over something, state, maintain, affirm," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + serere "join" (see series). By "joining oneself" to a particular view, one "claimed" or "maintained" it.

noun declaration, positive statement

Example sentences :

But the older man would not permit the assertion to go uncontradicted.
Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana

Her assertion was disregarded as to the inability to change.
Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana

He put his whole will into the assertion of guilt, to batter down the man's resistance.
Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana

I'm inclined to question, furthermore, the assertion that these jewels were your mother's.
Extract from : « The Black Bag » by Louis Joseph Vance

Donald had killed a man in the assertion of the first law of nature—self-preservation.
Extract from : « The Hunted Outlaw » by Anonymous

Have you any proof to urge in support of your assertion that the prisoner did not touch it?
Extract from : « The Channings » by Mrs. Henry Wood

He had took out the right keys, and Jenkins could bear him out in the assertion.
Extract from : « The Channings » by Mrs. Henry Wood

Through the assertion of his mother's will, his own begins to awake.
Extract from : « A Dish Of Orts » by George MacDonald

I cannot do this, but I make the assertion without the least shadow of doubt.
Extract from : « The Truth About Woman » by C. Gasquoine Hartley

Nor are we disposed to recede from our assertion made in Sec.
Extract from : « Modern Painters Volume I (of V) » by John Ruskin

Synonyms for assertion

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