asserting
noun C1- The act of making assertions.
Plural assertings
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She persisted in asserting that she had not taken the brooch.
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.
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