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

I ain't afeard av the ball," he hastened to asseverate; "it's the kick av it that murthers me.

From Overland by De Forest, J. W. (John William)

When we will prove nothing by deeds, then we make speeches, and when we are disobedient in act, then we asseverate with words of love and reverence.

From The Youth of the Great Elector by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)

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