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Asserter

Asserter \As*sert"er\, n. One who asserts; one who avers pr maintains; an assertor.

The inflexible asserter of the rights of the church.
--Milman.

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asserter

n. One who makes an assertion.

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asserter

n. someone who claims to speak the truth; "a bold asserter"; "a declarer of his intentions"; "affirmers of traditional doctrine"; "an asseverator of strong convictions"; "an avower of his own great intelligence" [syn: declarer, affirmer, asseverator, avower]

Usage examples of "asserter".

In his first political act therefore he definitely took his place not only as an adherent of the Angevin claim, but as a resolute asserter of papal and ecclesiastical rights.

Moreover, Posidonius, or any other asserter of the fatal influence of the stars, will have enough to do to find anything to say to this, if he be unwilling to impose upon the minds of the uninstructed in things of which they are ignorant.

The most positive asserters of the mortality of the soul, never denied the immortality of its substance.

Rather, he will think that so long as popular truth is one-sided, it is more desirable than otherwise that unpopular truth should have one-sided asserters too.

He predicted the same fate to ATTRACTION, whereof the present learned are such zealous asserters.

But there is one privilege the Gy-ei carefully retain, and the desire for which perhaps forms the secret motive of most lady asserters of woman rights above ground.