| 单词 | self-assertion | 
| 释义 | self-assertionn.  The action or fact of asserting one's status, individuality, rights, opinions, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > self-assertiveness > 			[noun]		 spritec1540 forwardnessa1616 perkinga1624 petulcity1628 perknessa1640 furthinessa1658 outbearing1740 self-assertion1805 bumptiousness1834 cockiness1841 perkiness1847 self-assertiveness1855 coxiness1859 forthputting1861 assertiveness1881 pushingness1881 aggression1889 pushfulness1897 pushiness1898 chestiness1909 attitude1975 1805    J. Foster Essays I.  ii. vi. 191  				The passions which inspirit men to resistance..put it [sc. the mind] in the habitual array of defence and self assertion. 1856    C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire V. xliii. 72  				A class whose intense self-assertion was fostered and inflamed by family names [etc.]. 1906    J. Mackinnon Hist. Mod. Liberty I. 145  				There is no spirit of self-assertion in these serfish centuries to aspire to self-government. 1947    R. M. French tr.  N. Berdyaev Russ. Idea viii. 169  				Egoistic self-assertion and alienation are the chief signs of the fall of man and of the world. 2002    Time 1 Apr. 62/1  				The foremothers of American feminism would have been scandalized by the idea of drinking as a form of female self-assertion. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  | 
	
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