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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | act of recognizing authority or truth of something |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, accession, acquiescence, admission, admitting, affirmation, allowance, allowing, assent, assertion, asservation, avowal, compliance, conceding, concession, concurrence, confession, confirmation, corroboration, declaration, profession, ratification, realization, recognition, yielding |
| Main Entry: | assertion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | declaration, positive statement |
| Synonyms: | affirmation, allegation, asservation, attestation, avowal, contention, defense, insistence, maintenance, mouthful, okay, predication, profession, pronouncement, report, say so, stamp of approval, stressing, two cents' worth, vindication |
| Antonyms: | denial, rejection |
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| Main Entry: | assertion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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absolute, affirmatory, asserting, broad, categorical, certain, confident, decided, declaratory, definitve, distinct, dogmatic, emphatic, explicit, express, flat, formal, ipse, peremptory, philodoxical, pointed, positive, predicable, predicatory, pronunciative, round, solemn, thetical, trenchant, unretracted
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