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

The second wait for Jennie seemed longer than the first, and Daniel not only grew restive in the booth, but began again to asseverate that Jennie had not behaved quite properly by him.

From The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories by Bump, Charles Weathers

It is so with matters of fact about which you asseverate so positively to us, as if they were matters of opinion.

From The Crimes of England by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

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