Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Determined advancement of one's own personality, wishes, or views.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of asserting one's own opinions, rights, or claims; a putting one's self forward in an over-confident or presumptuous way.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of asserting one's self, or one's own rights or claims; the quality of being self-asserting.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The aggressive
advancement of one's ownopinions orwishes .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of putting forth your own opinions in a boastful or inconsiderate manner that implies you feel superior to others
- noun the act of asserting yourself in an aggressive manner
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Examples
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Litten's carpenter friend Max John Hollingworth, looked up from his spokeshave with perhaps one too many knowing political apercus; and Litten's "weary" catalogue of his father's objections to the new Weimar republic – "To him, it's all atonal music, flat roofs, Bauhaus chairs, the rumba, Otto Dix, negro jazz, Jewish self-assertion" – could have done with the lumps taken out of it.
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Meo's handling of Miles' later maturation and increasing self-assertion was stylish and well modulated.
Rodney Punt: Turn of the Screw Gets a Stunning New Turn at LA Opera Rodney Punt 2011
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That is because economic strength leads to political and cultural self-assertion.
Nathan Gardels: Eric X. Li: A New China Looks at the West Nathan Gardels 2011
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He treats each line as if it were an adventure in self-assertion, accompanying phrases with sign language: at the name of God, he crosses himself; when he talks about being here, he points to the ground.
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That is because economic strength leads to political and cultural self-assertion.
Nathan Gardels: Eric X. Li: A New China Looks at the West Nathan Gardels 2011
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That's particularly stirring in a crucial moment of self-assertion—"Am I a machine without feelings?" she begins—with Michael Fassbender's forbiddingly handsome Rochester.
See Jane Blossom: An Enthralling 'Eyre' Joe Morgenstern 2011
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We may have two political wings but inordinate celebration of the individual self is not confined to either; it has become a cultural norm that suggests insecurity beneath exaggerated self-assertion, and not for irrational reasons.
Stephen J. Gertz: The Most Provocative, Revolutionary, Dangerous and Radical Book Ever Written Stephen J. Gertz 2011
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This is an enterprise whose domain encompasses the politics of identity, of religious zeal, of race or class or national resentment, of victimization, of cheek and self-assertion.
What Ahmadinejad Knows Bret Stephens 2010
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We may have two political wings but inordinate celebration of the individual self is not confined to either; it has become a cultural norm that suggests insecurity beneath exaggerated self-assertion, and not for irrational reasons.
Stephen J. Gertz: The Most Provocative, Revolutionary, Dangerous and Radical Book Ever Written Stephen J. Gertz 2011
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Hamlet's answer is the perfect self-assertion of the sovereign reader: "Words, words, words."
A million reasons to celebrate the pleasures of reading | Observer editorial 2011
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