asseverate

Example Sentences

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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

He could asseverate with some justice, "I have never written an insincere note."

From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Rosenfeld, Paul

Let me however asseverate, from my abundance of experience in these cases, that there is ultimately, after a reasonable time, every hope of becoming sound and healthy again.

From Plain Talks on Avoided Subjects by Guernsey, Henry Newell

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