reassert

verb (used with object)

1. to state with assurance, confidence, or force; state strongly or positively; affirm; aver: He asserted his innocence of the crime.
2. to maintain or defend (claims, rights, etc.).
3. to state as having existence; affirm; postulate: to assert a first cause as necessary.

Idioms

4. assert oneself, to insist on one’s rights, declare one’s views forcefully, etc.: The candidate finally asserted himself about property taxes.

verb (tr)

1. to assert (rights, claims, etc) againhe reasserted his belief

verb (tr)

1. to insist upon (rights, claims, etc)
2. (may take a clause as object) to state to be true; declare categorically
3. to put (oneself) forward in an insistent manner

v.

c.1600, “declare,” from Latin assertus, past participle of asserere “claim, maintain, affirm” (see assertion). Related: Asserted; asserting. To assert oneself “stand up for one’s rights” is recorded from 1879.