Verb

(en verb)

To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.

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he would often assert his beliefs to us

To use or exercise and thereby prove the existence of.

to assert one's authority

Salman Rushdie has asserted his right ... to be identified as the author of this work

To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties.

The quasi-judicial pre-grant process of asserting patent rights and appeals procedures during patent examination; 'to assert' patent rights means to defend or maintain patent rights.

(computer science) To make true; to make equal to 1. (rfex)

Verb

(disput)

To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another.

To make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss.

Some residents disputed the proposal, saying it was based more on emotion than fact.

To oppose by argument or assertion; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question; to deny the truth or validity of.

to dispute assertions or arguments

* Bancroft

to seize goods under the disputed authority of writs of assistance

To strive or contend about; to contest.

* Prescott

to dispute the possession of the ground with the Spaniards

(obsolete) To struggle against; to resist.

* Shakespeare

Dispute it [grief] like a man.