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
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)
He could hardly, for his confusion, asseverate the "Yes," when Rabette came running in with the almost unsuitably accented tidings, that the mother was coming.
From Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) by Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich
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