Assert and Impute

verb

• State categorically.
  • synonyms: asseverate, maintain
• To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true.
  • usage: "Before God I swear I am innocent"
  • synonyms: affirm, verify, avow, aver, swan, swear
• Insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized.
  • usage: "Women should assert themselves more"
  • synonyms: put forward
• Assert to be true.
  • usage: "The letter asserts a free society"
  • synonyms: insist

• (v.t.) To maintain; to defend.
• (v.t.) To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties.
• (v.t.) To affirm; to declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.

verb

• Attribute or credit to.
  • usage: "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats"
  • synonyms: ascribe, assign, attribute
• Attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source.
  • usage: "The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness"

• (v.t.) To take account of; to consider; to regard.
• (v.t.) To adjudge as one's own (the sin or righteousness) of another; as, the righteousness of Christ is imputed to us.
• (v.t.) To charge; to ascribe; to attribute; to set to the account of; to charge to one as the author, responsible originator or possessor; -- generally in a bad sense.