assertor

From assert +‎ -or.

assertor (plural assertors)

1. One who asserts or avers.
   • 1666 October 30 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Edward Waterhous[e], “To His Noble Friend and Kinsman, Sr. Edwarde Turno[u]r, Knight; Speaker of the Honorable House of Commons in this Present Parliament”, in A Short Narrative of the Late Dreadful Fire in London: […], London: […] W. G. for Rich[ard] Thrale […], and James Thrale […], published 1667, →OCLC, pages 188–189:

     [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, and I hope, through Gods grace, to death ſhall be, in point of Religion according to the Doctrine and Diſcipline of the Church of England.

   • 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 argument that the impossibility of his contradicting the man is a result of his not himself being a religious man, or not being a participant in any religious life, the result, that is, of some condition such that, if anyone were in that condition, he also would not be able to contradict the assertor. He mentions the case of an atheist who does contradict the assertor, and asks whether the atheist means the same by a Last Judgement as does the assertor, but replies that the criterion for meaning the same isn't clear.

2. One who supports, affirms, defends, or vindicates; a champion.
   • 1659, J[ohn] M[ilton], “To the Parlament of the Commonwealth of England with the Dominions therof”, in Considerations Touching the Likeliest Means to Remove Hirelings out of the Church. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcombe] for L[ivewell] Chapman […], →OCLC:

     [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 Proteſtants left ſtill undeliverd, from the oppreſſions of a Simonious decimating clergie; […]

• asserter

• Serratos, assorter, oratress, reassort, reroasts, roasters

• adsertor

From asserō +‎ -tor.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [asˈsɛr.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [asˈsɛr.t̪or]

assertor m (genitive assertōris); third declension

1. assertor, asserter, one who asserts, avows
2. one who proclaims that another is free or enslaved
3. restorer or champion of liberty
4. defender, advocate, protector

Third-declension noun.

• “assertor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "assertor", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• assertor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “assertor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “assertor”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin