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Webster 1913 Edition

Reassert

Reˊas-sert′

(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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Reassert

REASSERT'

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.

Definition 2024

reassert

English

Verb

reassert ‎(third-person singular simple present reasserts, present participle reasserting, simple past and past participle reasserted)

assert again
- 2012 April 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea”, in BBC:
  Gareth Bale gave his side hope with a goal shortly afterwards but the real damage was done and Chelsea reasserted their authority to finish easy winners with further goals from Ramires, Frank Lampard and Florent Malouda.
- 2006, Nikki R. Keddie, Yann Richard, Modern Iran: roots and results of revolution, Yale University Press, page 120
  They were tied to a revived religious class that took advantage of the end of anticlerical despotism to reassert Islamic views and practices and to regain some of their former sociopolitical status.