reassert

Verb

Synonyms: confirm

WordNet 3.0

strengthen or make more firm“The witnesses confirmed the victim's account”Synonyms: confirm

Reassert \Re`as*sert"\ (r[=e]`[a^]s*s[~e]rt"), v. t. To assert again or anew; to maintain after an omission to do so. [1913 Webster]

Let us hope . . . we may have a body of authors who will reassert our claim to respectability in literature. --Walsh. [1913 Webster]