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Self-assertion :: Self-assertion (n.) The act of asserting one's self, or one's own rights or claims; the quality of being self-asserting..

Protest :: Protest (v.) A declaration made by a party, before or while paying a tax, duty, or the like, demanded of him, which he deems illegal, denying the justice of the demand, and asserting his rights and claims, in order to show that the payment was not voluntary..

Avouch :: Avouch (v. t.) To declare or assert positively and as matter of fact; to affirm openly.

Recantation :: Recantation (n.) The act of recanting; a declaration that contradicts a former one; that which is thus asserted in contradiction; retraction.

Assertive :: Assertive (a.) Positive; affirming confidently; affirmative; peremptory.

Dormant :: Dormant (a.) Sleeping; as, a dormant animal; hence, not in action or exercise; quiescent; at rest; in abeyance; not disclosed, asserted, or insisted on; as, dormant passions; dormant claims or titles..

Declare :: Declare (v. t.) To make declaration of; to assert; to affirm; to set forth; to avow; as, he declares the story to be false..

Vindicate :: Vindicate (v. t.) To lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim.

Retract :: Retract (v. t.) To withdraw; to recall; to disavow; to recant; to take back; as, to retract an accusation or an assertion..

Skepticism :: Skepticism (n.) The doctrine that no fact or principle can be certainly known; the tenet that all knowledge is uncertain; Pyrrohonism; universal doubt; the position that no fact or truth, however worthy of confidence, can be established on philosophical grounds; critical investigation or inquiry, as opposed to the positive assumption or assertion of certain principles..

Declaration :: Declaration (n.) The act of declaring, or publicly announcing; explicit asserting; undisguised token of a ground or side taken on any subject; proclamation; exposition; as, the declaration of an opinion; a declaration of war, etc..

Affirmant :: Affirmant (n.) One who affirms or asserts.

Assert :: Assert (v. t.) To maintain; to defend.

Right :: Right (a.) To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of; as, to right the oppressed; to right one's self; also, to vindicate..

Affirmable :: Affirmable (a.) Capable of being affirmed, asserted, or declared; -- followed by of; as, an attribute affirmable of every just man..

Claim :: Claim (n.) A demand of a right or supposed right; a calling on another for something due or supposed to be due; an assertion of a right or fact.

Asseverative :: Asseverative (a.) Characterized by asseveration; asserting positively.

Affirm :: Affirm (v. t.) to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appellate court for review..

Self-asserting :: Self-asserting (a.) asserting one's self, or one's own rights or claims; hence, putting one's self forward in a confident or assuming manner..

Falsism :: Falsism (n.) That which is evidently false; an assertion or statement the falsity of which is plainly apparent; -- opposed to truism.

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