asseverate
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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
Be a man, sir, and asseverate your independence.
From Frank Oldfield Lost and Found by Wilson, Theodore P.
How wise was his nightly habit, as he settled himself in bed before falling asleep, to asseverate with a sigh of thankfulness that no man living was more contented and healthier than he!
From Apologia Diffidentis by Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock)
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
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