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Reassert vs Reaffirm - What's the difference?

reassert | reaffirm |

As verbs the difference between reassert and reaffirm

is that reassert is assert again while reaffirm is to affirm again.

reassert

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • assert again
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 15 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Gareth Bale gave his side hope with a goal shortly afterwards but the real damage was done and Chelsea reasserted their authority to finish easy winners with further goals from Ramires, Frank Lampard and Florent Malouda.}}
  • *2006 , Nikki R. Keddie, Yann Richard, Modern Iran: roots and results of revolution , Yale University Press, page 120
  • *:They were tied to a revived religious class that took advantage of the end of anticlerical despotism to reassert Islamic views and practices and to regain some of their former sociopolitical status.

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    * reassertion

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    reaffirm

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To affirm again.
  • To bolster or support.
    • The recent tragedy only served to reaffirm his faith.

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