| 释义 |
▪ I. asserting, vbl. n.|əˈsɜːtɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The action of laying claim to, maintaining, or declaring; assertion. (Now mostly gerundial.)
1644Milton Judgm. Bucer (1851) 302 The asserting of our just Liberties. 1673True Worship of God 52 Our standing up..when the Creed is read, is an asserting of it.
▪ II. aˈsserting, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
1. That asserts; affirming, declaring, maintaining.
1848R. Hamilton Sabbath iii. 68 The Lord Jesus was himself the asserting Lawgiver. 1878T. Sinclair Mount 93 New protestant, and more than protestant, asserting thinkers.
2. self-asserting: insisting on one's own rights or claims; egoistic; assuming.
1865Dickens Mut. Fr. xvi. 263 With a self-asserting air. 1879Geo. Eliot Theo. Such xviii. 317 These..self-asserting men. |