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

"She belongs to the machine," he would asseverate with warmth.

From Little Aliens by Kelly, Myra

It has more solemnity than declare, and more composure and dignity than asseverate, which is to assert excitedly.

From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin

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)