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self-aˈssertion
[self- 1 a.]
The action of asserting one's individuality, or insisting upon one's claims or one's supremacy.
180.Foster Ess. ii. vi. (1806) I. 205 They [sc. passions which inspirit men to resistance] put the mind in the habitual array of defence and self-assertion. 1847Ld. Lindsay Sk. Hist. Chr. Art I. p. ccix, The self-assertion of the Teutonic over the classic element of modern Europe. 1856Merivale Rom. Emp. xliii. (1871) V. 188 A class whose intense self-assertion was inflamed by family names [etc.].
So self-aˈsserting, self-aˈssertive (also self-aˈssertingly adv., self-aˈssertiveness), self-aˈssertory adjs., full of or characterized by self-assertion.
1837J. S. Mill in Westm. Rev. XXVIII. 98 Carrel's manner was not of the *self-asserting kind. 1869Trollope He Knew, etc. lvi. (1878) 311 Some specially self-asserting American.
1865Dickens Mut. Fr. ii. xvi, A *self-assertingly temporary and nomadic air.
Ibid. i. iv, Unwilling to own to the name of Reginald, as being too aspiring and *self assertive a name.
1884Truth 13 Mar. 374/1 A refreshing individuality and *self-assertiveness.
1866Alger Solitudes of Nature & Man iv. 381 This *self-assertory language. |