self-assertion

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self-as·ser·tion

(sĕlf′ə-sûr′shən)

Determined advancement of one's own personality, wishes, or views.

self′-as·ser′tive adj.

self′-as·ser′tive·ly adv.

self-as·ser′tive·ness n.

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self-assertion

the act or an instance of putting forward one's own opinions, etc, esp in an aggressive or conceited manner

ˌself-asˈserting adj

ˌself-asˈsertingly adv

ˌself-asˈsertive adj

ˌself-asˈsertively adv

ˌself-asˈsertiveness n

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self′-asser′tion

insistence on or an expression of one's own importance, opinions, or the like.

[1795–1805]

self′-asser′tive, adj.

self′-asser′tively, adv.

self′-asser′tiveness, n.

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Noun	1.	self-assertion - the act of putting forth your own opinions in a boastful or inconsiderate manner that implies you feel superior to others boast, boasting, jactitation, self-praise - speaking of yourself in superlatives
	2.	self-assertion - the act of asserting yourself in an aggressive manner aggression - deliberately unfriendly behavior

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self-assertion

[ˌselfəˈsɜːʃən] N → asertividad f

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Lady Lydiard misinterpreted his silence as expressing the sullen self-assertion of a heartless man.

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The irrepressible outburst of a reserved nature, forced into open self-assertion in its own despite, is of all moral forces the hardest to resist.

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I might, perhaps, have been a little astonished at this extraordinary absence of all self-assertion on Mr.

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In such an hour the mind does not change its lifelong bias, but carries it onward in imagination to the other side of death, gazing backward-- perhaps with the divine calm of beneficence, perhaps with the petty anxieties of self-assertion. What was Mr.

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"It is a pleasure," she said, with some approach to self-assertion, "which Bertha and I are rather too old-fashioned to enjoy."

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In 1821 he passed through a sudden spiritual crisis, when as he was traversing Leith Walk in Edinburgh his then despairing view of the Universe as a soulless but hostile mechanism all at once gave way to a mood of courageous self-assertion. He afterward looked on this experience as a spiritual new birth, and describes it under assumed names at the end of the great chapter in 'Sartor Resartus' on 'The Everlasting No.'

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They are, however, I am told, very harmless and rather wanting in natural self-assertion.

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As before, Rogojin walked in advance of his troop, who followed him with mingled self-assertion and timidity.

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He should have more of self-assertion and be less cultivated, and yet a friend of culture; and he should be a good listener, but no speaker.

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For Jos's former shyness and blundering blushing timidity had given way to a more candid and courageous self-assertion of his worth.

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There was no more self-assertion in the Minor Canon than in the schoolboy who had stood in the breezy playing-fields keeping a wicket.

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"I don't like my sister to do such things," said Tom, " I'll take care that the debts are paid, without your lowering yourself in that way." Surely there was some tenderness and bravery mingled with the worldliness and self-assertion of that little speech; but Maggie held it as dross, overlooking the grains of gold, and took Tom's rebuke as one of her outward crosses.