"self-assertion" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From self- + assertion.",
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          "ref": "1869, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield:",
          "text": "If his sweet-tempered wife could have got up any self-assertion against anyone, I am satisfied it could only have been because she was the Beauty’s sister.",
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          "ref": "1893, Thomas Huxley, Evolution and Ethics:",
          "text": "In place of ruthless self-assertion it demands self-restraint; in place of thrusting aside, or treading down, all competitors, it requires that the individual shall not merely respect, but shall help his fellows; its influence is directed, not so much to the survival of the fittest, as to the fitting of as many as possible to survive.",
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          "ref": "1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Disintegration Machine:",
          "text": "\"Self-assertion is foreign to my nature, but I have to hold my ground against opposition.\"",
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        "The aggressive advancement of one's own opinions or wishes."
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          "roman": "samoutverždénije",
          "sense": "aggressive advancement of one's own opinions or wishes",
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          "word": "самоутвержде́ние"
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          "sense": "aggressive advancement of one's own opinions or wishes",
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