asseveration

And if people cheer Trump’s every paranoid asseveration of prejudice and paranoia because they recognise the paranoid prejudices with which they keep company day and night, then we are in a sorry state.

An instantiation, perhaps, of the last asseveration can be descried herein.

As Gabriel Roth writes at Slate, you do not have to be Hemingway to want to eschew attenuated asseverations.

I venture to add, with all possible energy of asseveration, that I did that thing, Nim.

I jumped up again fast enough, not feeling very comfortable myself, and lay by her side for the remainder of the night, listening to her asseverations that Major Cooper was either dying or dead.