Word Meanings - OBTESTATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of obtesting; supplication; protestation. Antonio asserted this with great obtestation. Evelyn.

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• ASSERT
  self, claim, maintain; ad + serere to join or bind together. See 1. To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate. Nothing is more shameful . . . than to assert anything to
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• ASSERTORY
  Affirming; maintaining. Arguments . . . assertory, not probatory. Jer. Taylor. An assertory, not a promissory, declaration. Bentham. A proposition is assertory, when it enounces what is known as actual. Sir W. Hamilton.
• GREAT-GRANDSON
  A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• PROTESTATION
  Formerly, a declaration in common-law pleading, by which the party interposes an oblique allegation or denial of some fact, protesting that it does or does not exist, and at the same time avoiding a direct affirmation or denial. (more info) 1.
• GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
  The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
• SUPPLICATION
  A religious solemnity observed in consequence of some military success, and also, in times of distress and danger, to avert the anger of the gods. Syn. -- Entreaty; petition; solicitation; craving. (more info) 1. The act of supplicating; humble
• GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
  The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• GREATLY
  1. In a great degree; much. I will greatly multiply thy sorrow. Gen. iii. 16. 2. Nobly; illustriously; magnanimously. By a high fate thou greatly didst expire. Dryden.
• ASSERTER
  One who asserts; one who avers pr maintains; an assertor. The inflexible asserter of the rights of the church. Milman.
• GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER
  A daughter of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GREAT-GRANDCHILD
  The child of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GREATNESS
  1. The state, condition, or quality of being great; as, greatness of size, greatness of mind, power, etc. 2. Pride; haughtiness. It is not of pride or greatness that he cometh not aboard your ships. Bacon.
• GREAT
  great, AS. gret; akin to OS. & LG. grt, D. groot, OHG. grz, G. gross. 1. Large in space; of much size; big; immense; enormous; expanded; -- opposed to small and little; as, a great house, ship, farm, plain, distance, length. 2. Large in number;
• GREAT WHITE WAY
  Broadway, in New York City, in the neighborhood chiefly occupied by theaters, as from about 30th Street about 50th Street; -- so called from its brilliant illumination at night.
• OBTESTATION
  The act of obtesting; supplication; protestation. Antonio asserted this with great obtestation. Evelyn.
• ASSERTION
  1. The act of asserting, or that which is asserted; positive declaration or averment; affirmation; statement asserted; position advanced. There is a difference between assertion and demonstration. Macaulay. 2. Maintenance; vindication; as, the
• GREATEN
  To make great; to aggrandize; to cause to increase in size; to expand. A minister's is to greaten and exalt . Ken.
• ASSERTOR
  One who asserts or avers; one who maintains or vindicates a claim or a right; an affirmer, supporter, or vindicator; a defender; an asserter. The assertors of liberty said not a word. Macaulay. Faithful assertor of thy country's cause. Prior.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• SELF-ASSERTION
  The act of asserting one's self, or one's own rights or claims; the quality of being self-asserting.
• SELF-ASSERTING
  asserting one's self, or one's own rights or claims; hence, putting one's self forward in a confident or assuming manner.
• TUN-GREAT
  Having the circumference of a tun. Chaucer.