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Self-assertion

noun

The act of putting forth your own opinions in a boastful or inconsiderate manner that implies you feel superior to others.

The act of asserting yourself in an aggressive manner.

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"Self-assertion" Quotes from Famous Books

... the outlaw and the bully found congenial refuge, the celestial did not belie his name. He was indeed of another world, and his capacity for patience, his native dignity without suspicion of hauteur, baffled the loud self-assertion of the Irish and ...

— Our Foreigners - A Chronicle of Americans in the Making • Samuel P. Orth

... Queen showed more self-assertion in her treatment of the Court Godmother, which was characterised ...

— In Brief Authority • F. Anstey

... rising and retiring, the times of meals and their nature and substance, all the activities of the household—in which he himself takes little or no part—are still arranged primarily to suit his work, his play, and his tastes. This is an accepted matter of course, and not the result of any violent self-assertion on his part. It is equally an accepted matter of course that the wife should be constantly occupied in keeping this little solar system in easy harmonious movement, evolving from it, if she has the skill, the music of the spheres. She has no recognised independent personality of her ...

— Little Essays of Love and Virtue • Havelock Ellis

... a reserved nature, forced into open self-assertion in its own despite, is of all moral forces the hardest to resist. Magdalen was startled into silence. For a moment, the two sisters—so strangely dissimilar in person and character—faced one another, without ...

— No Name • Wilkie Collins

... Then he was content; and then only appeared in his letters and diary that good-natured, self-satisfied feeling which arose from the consciousness that he was one of the most fortunate authors who had ever lived. There was nothing cynical in his sense of superiority, but an amiable self-assertion and self-confidence that only made men smile,—as when Lord Palmerston remarked that "he wished he was as certain of any one thing as Tom Macaulay was of everything." This self-confidence rarely provoked opposition, except when he was positive ...

— Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIII • John Lord

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