assertor
One who asserts or avers.
Noun
- One who asserts or avers.
- [N]o waver in Judgment, have I, though Gods mercy, ever been; but a conſtant aſſertor of, and ſufferer for my ſatisfiedneſs in, and adheſion to, the piety and probity of my breeding and belief, vvhich vvas ever, yet is,...
- 2017 Mario von der Ruhr, et al: Religion and Wittgenstein's Legacy; →ISBN When Wittgenstein says that he cannot contradict the assertor of a Last Judgement, he uses (repeatedly) the first person singular. There is no...
- One who supports, affirms, defends, or vindicates; a champion.
- [I]t is a deed of higheſt charitie to help undeceive the people, and a vvork vvorthieſt your autoritie, in all things els authors, aſſertors and novv recoverers of our libertie, to deliver us, the only people of all...
Origin
Etymology tree English assert Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin -ātor Old French -eorbor. Middle English -our ▲ Latin -torlbor. English -or English assertor From assert + -or.