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as·sert

(ə-sûrt′)

tr.v. as·sert·ed, as·sert·ing, as·serts

1. To state or express positively; affirm: asserted his innocence.

2. To defend or maintain (one's rights, for example).

3. To put into action boldly; employ or demonstrate: asserted her independence.

Idiom:

assert oneself

To act boldly or forcefully, especially in defending one's rights or stating an opinion.

[Latin asserere, assert- : ad-, ad- + serere, to join; see ser- in Indo-European roots.]

as·sert′a·ble, as·sert′i·ble adj.

as·sert′er, as·ser′tor n.

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assertable

(əˈsɜːtəbəl)

adj

having the ability to be affirmed or professed or deserving of affirmation

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Adj.

assertable - capable of being affirmed or asserted; "a quality affirmable of every member of the family"

affirmable

possible - capable of happening or existing; "a breakthrough may be possible next year"; "anything is possible"; "warned of possible consequences"

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Once the self-incrimination privilege was made assertable against the states through the Fourteenth Amendment, (23) and the Court decided to enforce that right even more vigorously than it did the amendment's more amorphous guarantee of "due process," Jackson's concern--like Cardozo's earlier analogous one--became a more routine reality.