asseverate

Why merely say something, when they can declare, assert, expostulate, announce, or asseverate it?

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

—At this, the Boy suffered some Confusion, then to asseverate, My Tutor is deceased, Sir.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

The mighty works of Ramesis the Great, Memphis, Karnak and Thebes asseverate The pomp and glory, Egypt, of your ancient state.

From Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland by Tatlow, Joseph

They lacked a definite opinion to entertain and a cry to asseverate.

From In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays by Birrell, Augustine

As to whether she was young, middle-aged or only well-preserved, no one was in a position to asseverate.

From Anderson Crow, Detective by McCutcheon, George Barr

In the Daily Mail in 2007, Humphrys asseverated that “vandals” who use “grotesque abbreviations” in their text messages are “pillaging our punctuation; savaging our sentences; raping our vocabulary”.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 25, 2016

Sometimes, Ms. Silveri asseverated, “ ‘she said’ is just the very best way to say that.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 29, 2015

He asseverated that he would not jeopardize the interests of French citizens for the sake of winning advantages which some firms might derive from trading with Russia.

From Time Magazine Archive

Del. Sir / It has been facetiously asseverated by some clerical wags here that Father Andrew Greeley has already published all his thoughts: now he is beginning to publish all his fantasies.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wilhelm asseverated loudly, that he meant not to persuade, but to convince: he begged for another moment's patience.

From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

So Ferondo returned to his hamlet, where all that saw him fleeing, as folk are wont to flee from spectacles of horror, he called them back, asseverating that he was risen from the tomb.

From The Decameron, Volume I by Rigg, J. M. (James Macmullen)

"Don't be alarmed, don't be alarmed; I'm not mad, by God, I'm not mad," the captain kept asseverating excitedly.

From The Possessed (The Devils) by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

She would lie there, gazing at me, with a dumb fear in her eyes—and I would go on asseverating blindly, like an unsuccessful actor before a jeering audience.

From Sylvia's Marriage by Sinclair, Upton

The Governor broke off, annoyed to find himself asseverating for the second time so obvious a fact.

From The Hermit and the Wild Woman by Wharton, Edith

Into every room they looked, the old woman asseverating denials that it was of no use, they might see for themselves, that no one had been there for years past.

From Love and Life An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume by Yonge, Charlotte Mary