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Webster 1913 Edition

(rēˊăs-sẽrt′)

Verb.

To assert again or anew; to maintain after an omission to do so.

Let us hope . . . we may have a body of authors who will

reassert

our claim to respectability in literature.

Walsh.

Verb.

[re and asset.] To assert again; to maintain after suspension or cessation.

Let us hope - we may have a body of authors who will reassert our claim to respectability in literature.