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

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)

We asseverate it in a peculiarly earnest manner, or with increased positiveness as what can not be disputed.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

You would, of course, asseverate your innocence——" "Of course I should.

From In the Onyx Lobby by Wells, Carolyn