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Webster 1828 Edition

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Declaring with confidence; maintaining; defending.

asserting

asserting ‎(plural assertings)

The act of making assertions.
- 2009, James Tartaglia, Richard Rorty: Mind, language and truth
  From this perspective, when one evaluates assertions one is primarily evaluating assertings performances on the part of asserters, and the evaluations of what is said in those assertings in some way depend upon these prior evaluations.