assert
/əˈsɝt/ verbe B2En français : affirmer, attester, asseoir
- To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively. · He would often assert that there was life on other planets.
- 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. · to assert our rights and liberties
- To insist on the legitimacy of one's rights, opinion, etc; not to allow oneself to be dismissed; to ensure that one is taken into consideration; to make oneself respected; to be assertive. See assert oneself. · Since going to therapy, I've found it much easier to assert myself.
- To declare that a condition or expression must be true at a certain point in the source code (in some cases causing the program to fail if it is not, as a safeguard).
- To set a signal on a line using a voltage or electric current.
He/she/it asserts · Prétérit asserted · Participe passé asserted · Forme en -ing asserting
Formes du verbe
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- Forme en -ing
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Dans la bibliothèque
Can you, sir, produce any witnesses to the truth of what you have asserted?’—‘Alas, no, monsieur,’ replied the count; ‘all those who surrounded the vizier, or who knew me at his court, are either dead or gone away, I know not where.
The Traveler asserted that he had, with the hire of the Ass, hired his Shadow also.
Now, as a quarter-past one has already struck, I do not consider I have asserted too much in saying, that, in another hour and thirty minutes Mercédès will have become Madame Dantès.”
In his singular character the dual nature alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally predominated in him.
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