Assertion
Definition
a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary)
Example
"Despite years of debate and legislation, the authorities have been unable to completely curb such a brutal assertion of power and violence, where reasoning is more obscure than for any other type of crime."
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the act of swimming; :
anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events
the seventh and last day of the week; observed as the Sabbath by Jews and some Christians
anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events
the warmest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox
assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing