Assert and Solicit

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

• Make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently.
  • usage: "Henry IV solicited the Pope for a divorce"; "My neighbor keeps soliciting money for different charities"
  • synonyms: beg, tap
• Make amorous advances towards.
  • usage: "John is courting Mary"
  • synonyms: woo, court, romance
• Approach with an offer of sexual favors.
  • usage: "he was solicited by a prostitute"; "The young man was caught soliciting in the park"
  • synonyms: hook, accost
• Incite, move, or persuade to some act of lawlessness or insubordination.
  • usage: "He was accused of soliciting his colleagues to destroy the documents"
• Make a solicitation or petition for something desired.
  • usage: "She is too shy to solicit"

• (v.t.) To disturb; to disquiet; -- a Latinism rarely used.
• (v.t.) To awake or excite to action; to rouse desire in; to summon; to appeal to; to invite.
• (v.t.) To endeavor to obtain; to seek; to plead for; as, to solicit an office; to solicit a favor.
• (v.t.) To ask from with earnestness; to make petition to; to apply to for obtaining something; as, to solicit person for alms.
• (v.t.) To urge the claims of; to plead; to act as solicitor for or with reference to.