[f. as prec. + -ING2.]
1. That asserts; affirming, declaring, maintaining.
1848. R. W. Hamilton, Sabbath, iii. 68. The assured fact that the Lord Jesus was himself the asserting Lawgiver.
1878. T. Sinclair, Mount, 93. New protestant, and more than protestant, asserting thinkers.
2. Self-asserting: insisting on one’s own rights or claims; egoistic; assuming.
1865. Dickens, Mut. Fr., xvi. 263. With a self-asserting air.
1879. Geo. Eliot, Theo. S., xviii. 317. These … self-asserting men.
