asseverate

—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

Why merely say something, when they can declare, assert, expostulate, announce, or asseverate it?

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

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

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

"He and Bertha Petterick are together, that is why he is so late," the fiend would asseverate.

From The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius by Sarah Grand

She did not asseverate any more, nor even say she was innocent.

From Sue, A Little Heroine by L. T. Meade

In the Daily Mail in 2007, Humphrys asseverated that “vandals” who use “grotesque abbreviations” in their text messages are “pillaging our punctuation; savaging our sentences; raping our vocabulary”.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 25, 2016

Sometimes, Ms. Silveri asseverated, “ ‘she said’ is just the very best way to say that.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 29, 2015

Frantic screeds from the offices of the promoters asseverated that the true spine shatterings would begin with the second week's bill.

From Time Magazine Archive

Le Temps asseverated that there was a middle course between the guillotine and acquittal—ten or fifteen years in prison.

From Time Magazine Archive

The point at issue, Entwistle's deep patient voice asseverated, was this.

From A Safety Match by Ian Hay

It was only by addressing his reason in repeated arguments, and by solemnly asseverating my entire fidelity, that I induced him to yield.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 by Various

So off they went in a body to the manager and demanded his instant dismissal, loudly asseverating that they would no longer eat, drink, or work in company with such a monster.

From Asbestos Its production and use, with some account of the asbestos mines of Canada by Robert H. Jones

"Don't be alarmed, don't be alarmed; I'm not mad, by God, I'm not mad," the captain kept asseverating excitedly.

From The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Governor broke off, annoyed to find himself asseverating for the second time so obvious a fact.

From The Hermit and the Wild Woman by Edith Wharton

Note how your captains of industry are asseverating that factories in the North must cut wages in order to compete with those that have gone South.

From The Hindered Hand or, The Reign of the Repressionist by Robert E. Bell