RE: opposite of 'assert' -- 'de-assert' OR 'deassert'?

["Jones, Donna" <DJones -at- zebra -dot- com>]

Sounds like verbiage worthy of a trashy romance novel. I'm guessing you
haven't read many of those, T.? (Can't tell what your gender is from your
e-mail address and signature, so I can't make any assumptions.)  :-)

Hmm. It may not be Friday everywhere yet, but as Alan Jackson and Jimmy
Buffett would say, it's 5 o'clock somewhere. Isn't that license enough to
get a little goofy? Time for a cold one!

 

> She "asserted" her arrival? A usage I am unfamiliar with.

> > Assert:
> > "She asserted her arrival at the grand ball."
> > 
> > Opposite of assert:
> > "Shortly thereafter, she stomped off in a grand huff 'cause everyone was
> > all "blah blah blah Cinderella" and not paying any attention to her."
> > 
> > Therefore, the antonym of assert is "stomped off in a huff".


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