单词 | reassert |
释义 | reassertv. 1. a. transitive. To assert, insist on, or bring to the fore again. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > repetition > repeat [verb (transitive)] doublec1380 naitc1400 reportc1405 repeat1427 renewa1464 iterate1533 resume1535 to run over ——1538 redouble1580 to go over ——1583 re-say1583 reclaim1590 ingeminate1594 reword1604 reassume1631 reutter1632 oversay1639 to fetch over1642 reassert1647 the mind > language > statement > assertion or affirmation > [verb (transitive)] > again or anew reaffirm1624 reassert1647 society > morality > dueness or propriety > [verb (transitive)] > claim > again reassert1726 1647 W. Prynne Sword Christian Magistracy Ep. Ded. sig. b1 A plain recantation of that which he re-asserted by its printing, and re-confirmed in his Epistle and Reply thereto annexed. a1665 J. Goodwin Πλήρωμα τὸ Πνευματικόv (1670) vii. 175 We might re-assert our former Argument for the Divinity of the Holy Ghost. 1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xvii. 147 With equal fury, and with equal fame, Shall great Ulysses re-assert his claim. 1771 J. Horne in ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. lvi. 246 You replied with abuse, and re-asserted your charge. 1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi II. v. v. 261 I re-asserted each right, and proved it. 1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xxii. 368 They had an opportunity of reasserting their independence. 1961 G. F. Kennan Russia & West v. 72 Moscow began at the end of May to try to reassert its authority in Murmansk. 1990 B. Bettelheim Recoll. & Refl. i. 7 To counteract the military defeat of 1866, the government went to great lengths to reassert Vienna's cultural and economic importance. b. transitive. to reassert itself: to come to the fore or manifest itself again. ΚΠ 1840 J. S. Mill in London & Westm. Rev. 33 272 The natural tendency..reasserted itself. 1854 C. Kingsley Alexandria Pref. 10 These laws will..reassert themselves. 1929 M. Redgrave in Granta 7 June To his horror he perceived..that his old trick was reasserting itself. 1958 Listener 29 Nov. 826/1 In spite of the imposed colonial grid, the landscaping tradition of the old country reasserts itself successfully. 2000 Independent 17 Apr. (Monday Review section) 3/3 Today is Labour's black Monday when grey power reasserts itself as older and wiser heads realise that long-term savings based on real profits in the real economy should be nurtured and encouraged. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > [verb (transitive)] > bring (a person or thing) into a state or condition > bring back to or into a state reversec1350 reassert1692 1692 R. South 12 Serm. I. 552 Gross Ingratitude in the person so made Free, forfeits his Freedom, and Re-asserts him to his former Condition of Slavery. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > take [verb (transitive)] > take again or back > take back resume1404 to take again1474 revoke1526 reclaim1530 to fetch again1535 to take back1568 reducec1595 reassume1609 revicta1656 reassert1704 pull1985 1704 W. Shippen Faction Display'd 2 'Tis She,..That would Usurpers for their Treason Crown, Till Time and Vengeance drag them headlong down, And Exil'd Monarchs Reassert their rightful Throne. 1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. i. 52 To warn the wretch, that young Orestes grown To manly years shou'd re-assert the throne. Derivatives reaˈsserting n. ΚΠ 1697 C. Leslie Snake in Grass (ed. 2) 233 A fair occasion..towards the Re-asserting of the Good Old Cause. 1767 G. Lyttelton Hist. Henry II II. 319 All have been brought into a more perfect and a more regular state of freedom, by the re-asserting of ancient rights. 1837 E. Bulwer-Lytton Athens I. ii. i. 315 It was forbidden, upon pain of death, to propose reasserting the Athenian claims. 1962 M. I. Seidin William Butler Yeats i. v. 133 A fiction..for the reasserting of intuition against logic, poetry against science, and religious belief against atheism. 2000 D. Bryan Orange Parades x. 161 The more widespread reaction of Orangemen to the recent events within Northern Ireland has been a reasserting of ‘tradition’. reaˈssertor n. rare a person who asserts something again. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > assertion or affirmation > [noun] > renewed or repeated > one who asserts again reassertor1859 reinforcer1873 reaffirmer1892 1859 S. Smiles Self-help iii. 48 A recent reassertor of the power of perseverance. 1905 G. K. Chesterton Heretics 169 My objection to Mr Lowes Dickinson and the reassertors of the pagan ideal is, then, this. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1647 |
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